Atossa soltani biography sample

Atossa Soltani is the director of global strategy for The Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative, an alliance of 30 indigenous nations working to permanently protect 86 million acres in one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth in Ecuador and Peru.

The initiative is advancing a just ecologic-economic transition based on the indigenous principles of harmony and reciprocity and focused on communities and ecosystems flourishing.

Atossa is also the founder and board president of Amazon Watch and served as the organization’s first executive director for eighteen years.

Atossa soltani biography sample

She is one of the co-founders of Artists for Amazonia and a contributing author to the Science Panel for the Amazon. Atossa is the Hillary Institute 2013 Global Laureate for Climate Leadership and in 2015, received the Hillary Step Prize for building a broad movement for leaving fossil fuels in the ground.

She served on the