Josselyn Bryan Arboleda

Her career and experience as a marine biologist coordinating coral monitoring projects (photomosaics), coral restoration and mangrove forest rehabilitation, and solid waste management. She also has experience coordinating citizen science projects with fishermen to improve the governance and conservation of fishery resources, as well as in the characterisation of species and dry forests. She has participated in COP16 as a Raizal environmental leader and speaker in the blue zone, as well as in international exchanges on the invasive lionfish, of which she also has extensive knowledge. Winner of the FI WI RIIF action fund with her initiative to capture and generate scientific knowledge about lionfish.

She was honoured by the Departmental Assembly of the San Andrés Archipelago as an outstanding woman of the department for her work in conservation.