Josefina Klinger

Josefina Klinger is a socio-environmental leader and director of Corporación Mano Cambiada, an organization based in Nuquí, Chocó in the Pacific Coast of Colombia. Mano Cambiada translates to exchange of knowledge-craft, a local ancestral practice based on solidarity and peer relationships over paper money. Mano Cambiada is a reference in community-based tourism and has led projects such as the Ensenada de Utría National Park Visitor Center and the Pacific Migration Festival. In 2015, Josefina was recognized with the Cafam Woman Award for her contribution to ecotourism as an activity that energizes and articulates local value chains and develops social and economic projects focused on children and youth, culture and environment, entrepreneurship and production. Josefina is currently co-leading the nomination of the Pacific Migration Festival as an immaterial heritage that will form the pedagogical and architectural design for the Veanvé Environmental Artistic Center in Nuquí, Chocó.