My first encounter with politics and human rights happened in my first year of secondary school, through a workshop that changed my life. For the first time, I understood politics from closeness, from its human dimension, and from the real possibility of transforming the world through everyday actions. That moment showed me that a single experience can open an entire horizon, help someone find their voice, and discover where they belong. Since then, one of my greatest motivations has been to create spaces that can become that starting point for other girls, adolescents, and women. Understanding that “we are here because others fought for us” led me to deeply identify with feminism.
At fourteen, I discovered Girl Up, and its vision of connecting girls across the world through horizontality, genuine exchange, and collective action left a lasting mark on me. It confirmed my belief that real change is born from the collective, and that together we can create something far greater than what we could achieve alone. That experience inspired me to found Girl Up Tupanakuy Warmikuna, with a presence at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and the National University of San Marcos, as a space to talk about feminism from everyday life and through an intersectional lens. Through seminars, social media, a podcast, and school-based actions, we addressed comprehensive sexuality education, cultural analysis, current affairs, and gender, always centering humanity, care, and trust as the foundation of leadership.
Girl Up was the first project I founded, and it profoundly shaped my understanding of leadership: non-hierarchical, rooted in listening, care, and building honest relationships. Through GIrl Up, I learned that activism cannot be separated from humanity, and that coherence, empathy, and care are also political. This perspective now guides every space I inhabit and has left me with a core conviction: change is built from the human dimension.
This journey connected me with Girl Up Latin America, and today I serve as Deputy Director General of Girl Up Peru, working to reactivate the initiative nationwide. From this process emerged KAPUY, a national feminist network founded in September 2024 to bring together voices from different regions of the country and challenge centralization. Today, it brings together more than 55 organizations across Peru and organized the First National Gender Congress in March 2025, centering territorial voices and promoting a more open, horizontal, and human approach to knowledge and academia.
These experiences also led me to participate in mentorship programs and other volunteer spaces related to democracy, human rights, and gender. Professionally, I aspire to dedicate myself to social economy with a focus on human development and gender, to research, and to managing projects with real social impact.
My vision of equity is clear: recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and working to level the path. I understand justice as memory and action, as a collective responsibility. And leadership, for me, begins within oneself, rooted in self-knowledge, care, horizontality, and coherence.
Today, I understand feminist values not as a fixed list, but as an inner compass: humanization, collectivity, intersectionality, and coherence. None of this is built alone. We are a network. Looking ahead, my greatest goal is for my story to inspire others, just as so many stories inspired me, to help someone believe that they, too, can dare to take the leap, even with fear.
