Mireya Peña

Social worker, cooperativist, writer, singer, cook, mother, and grandmother. She is part of the Unidos San Agustín Convive cooperative in Caracas, Venezuela, and has worked in the organization of planned spaces for food distribution connecting rural and urban communities.

Is a Social Recreator, who currently coordinates the Youth organization in the Colombia Joven Corporation. Regional Promoter in the North of Cauca with the Corporación Grupo Semillas de Bogotá in coordination with FIAN Colombia with a project on The Human Right to Food in children and adolescents in the North of Cauca and Corcovado Bolívar. Human rights activist and Conscientious Objector officially declared in 2008. With 25 years of experience in community and social work.
“We are working on the Huma Right to Food Issue, in the rescue and conservation of native seeds” promoting seed custodians and seed stocks. Promoting farmer’s markets and trueques, we are raising awareness in scholar spaces about the need for healthier scholar shops: more food and fewer groceries. We are motivating the creation of an afro-alimentary corridor that gives answers to food shortages in the territory and strengthen alimentary sovereignty in Afro communities to the North of Cauca.