CoDev is pleased to welcome Natalie Illanes Nogueira, the new Human and Labour Rights Program Director who joined us in early January, 2022.

Natalie is a Brazilian and Bolivian Quechua warmi (woman) living in Canada for the past 9 years. Her trajectory led her to study social sciences in Brazil and community work in Canada. Natalie’s commitment to Human and Labour Rights and Indigenous and Latin American liberation, come from birth and nothing makes her happier than doing work in solidarity with these powerful and vibrant communities. Natalie had an active role in two unions, being union steward and union president with Workers United Canada Council Local 2864. Throughout her time in Canada, she has done frontline and grassroots work, as well as strategic development and lobbying work because she believes that both need to go hand in hand for social change to be achieved.

”I am very happy to join CoDev’s team as the Human and Labour Rights Program Director-- being able to put together the People of the Eagle, the People of the Quetzal and the People of the Condor, through our very special model of international collaboration and solidarity.”