I met Ledys Sanjuan Mejia on the 19th of February, 2015 at the Impact Hub of Bogota before leaving to Quito. Ledys has been working for a year as a campaigner at SumOfUs, "a movement of consumers, investors and workers counterbalancing the power of large corporations to forge a just, sustainable path for the global...".
She will be launching a campaign in June 2015 to ban fossil fuel companies to come to the COP 21, in Paris, at the end of the year. The motive behind this ambitious campaign is to avoid greenwashing practices and redundant lobbying from large petroleum corporations at the UN conference. For this operation, they will seek support from one of their partner, Corporate Accountability International, and will count on the voice of other influential NGOs, such as Oxfam or Greenpeace.
Ledys is for now the only campaigner in South America working at SumOfUs. Her strong personality and her engagement help her to involve more and more Latin American people every day in campaigns that matter to her and will definitely bring her to the COP 21 in Paris, where she will keep on mobilizing people.
She will be launching a campaign in June 2015 to ban fossil fuel companies to come to the COP 21, in Paris, at the end of the year. The motive behind this ambitious campaign is to avoid greenwashing practices and redundant lobbying from large petroleum corporations at the UN conference. For this operation, they will seek support from one of their partner, Corporate Accountability International, and will count on the voice of other influential NGOs, such as Oxfam or Greenpeace.
Ledys is for now the only campaigner in South America working at SumOfUs. Her strong personality and her engagement help her to involve more and more Latin American people every day in campaigns that matter to her and will definitely bring her to the COP 21 in Paris, where she will keep on mobilizing people.
Ledys is a friend of Louise, the teacher I met in Bogota. "Ledys is an anti-racist feminist campaigner based in Bogota, Colombia. She has campaigned for free education, immigration reform and against racism and sexism in the UK and Colombia. Ledys has a passion for race and gender justice in the context of the international political economy and she combines activism with academic research and writing. When not organising a group or a demonstration Ledys is cooking and knitting in an effort not to make her life all about social justice." http://sumofus.org/about/who-we-are/