Central America & Caribbean

Director, ECHO Central America & Caribbean

Katalina holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences and a Master’s degree in Fundamentals and Practices of Sustainability from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).

She has worked in Bolivia, Colombia, and Angola, focusing on research, environmental education, and the promotion of sustainable agri-food practices with local institutions and peasant communities.

Between 2019 and 2021, she implemented a Participatory Action Research project to strengthen agroecological production and commercialization in a rural municipality in the mesothermal valleys of Bolivia. In 2021, she visited farmer associations in the municipality of Apia in Colombia to systematize their good agricultural, commercial, and organizational practices to be shared with associations in gestation in Caribbean countries. Between 2022 and 2024, she was a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Angola, in charge of two missions to strengthen the resilience of agro-pastoral communities through the promotion of agroecology and ecosystem conservation. In parallel, since 2019, together with her family, she implemented an agroecological farm in Bolivia as a model for teaching and raising awareness among the inhabitants of the Municipality of Vallegrande.