Majandra (she/her) is the Centering Justice Coordinator at the Tishman Environment and Design Center, where she supports collaborations between academic centers committed to climate and environmental justice and their work to advance more just partnerships with frontlines communities and movements. This includes coordinating work related to the Centering Justice Community of Practice and the Centering Justice Symposium. A queer feminist from Lima, Peru, Majandra’s work is grounded in her background as a young climate justice activist rooted in the Global South. 

Majandra has worked in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors for over a decade, including as Co-Executive Director of FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund. Her experience blends advocacy, facilitation, research, and organizational governance, strategy and project coordination. She has most recently collaborated with the Youth Climate Justice Fund, the Funder’s Learning and Action Co-Laboratory on Gender and the Environment, Panta Rhea Foundation, Foundation for a Just Society, Oxfam Novib and Our Collective Practice, among others. 

Majandra holds an MS in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management from The New School. During her graduate studies, she was a Public Engagement Fellow, an Aronson Fellow and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Tishman Environment and Design Center. On any given weekend, you’ll find her playing the dobra as part of NYC’s largest women-led drumline, or enjoying time in the nearest forests, mountains, or ocean.