Sofía Isabel Ramirez Rivero
Sofía Ramírez, is a Law student at Los Andes University, borned and raised in Cartagena de Indias, the Caribbean coast of Colombia, a queer woman deeply committed to racial and climate justice, gender equity, LGBTIQ+ rights, and the strengthening of community processes. Her work combines legal research, socio-legal practice, and direct participation in initiatives with an ethnic-racial focus, grounded in the belief that sustainable change must emerge both from institutional frameworks and from communities.
Her activism began with the restoration of mangroves in La Boquilla, a fishing village affected by deforestation and ecosystem degradation in Colombia, where she worked on environmental conservation and community education. She later joined the Territorial School of Memory Las siembras de la paz, las cosechas de las transformaciones coordinating walks, environmental education processes, and territorial memory exercises in defense of the territory and peace-building.
As a young Caribbean activist, Sofía has taken part in mobilizations defending collective and reproductive rights, including national campaigns for the right to abortion in Colombia, which led to its decriminalization in 2022. Also, supported humanitarian responses to indigenous displacement in Bogotá and led workshops with vulnerable communities in Cartagena alongside Fundación Sharing Dreams.In the legal field, she has developed in strategic litigation processes for rural women in protected areas and worked on proposals related to land access and agrarian jurisdiction. Currently, she is an active member of the Social Inclusion Action Program (PAIIS), legal clinic at Universidad de los Andes, and the civil society organization ILEX – Acción Jurídica, in the Territorial Rights and Legal Mobilization line, also working as a researcher and community educator in the Afro Justice Line at the Community Justice School of the National University of Colombia, promoting intersectional and intergenerational approaches to justice and the protection of ancestral lands.
She combines her Law studies with an emphasis on Sociology and Gender & Sexuality, a training that has allowed her to critically analyze the intersections between law, gender, race, and climate. Sofia was also a scholarship awardee at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) in the Advanced Diploma in Public Policy, Crisis, and Gender Justice, where she deepened her understanding of socio-environmental challenges and gender equality issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Currently fellow of Fundación Mi Sangre in its Colombia-Guatemala Leadership Training Program 2025 for the implementation of social impact programs and fellow of the Life of Pachamama Foundation through the program “Path Towards the Democratization of the Global South: Children, Adolescents, and Youth for Climate Action.”, Path Towards the Democratization of the Global South: Children, Adolescents, and Youth for Climate Action,” where she received intensive training to advance climate justice and participatory governance across generations and borders.”
