Valeria Scorza
Pronouns: she/her
CEO, Fundación Avina
Valeria Scorza is the CEO of Fundación Avina, bringing a strong human rights background and a commitment to intersectional programming that emphasizes Global South perspectives and locally led initiatives. Alongside her team, she spearheads Fundación Avina’s mission to build transformative partnerships and alliances with civil society, private donors, international cooperation entities, and corporations, focusing on sustainable, equity-driven solutions. Under her leadership, Fundación Avina ensures that their grantmaking strategies prioritize the participation, representation, and power-sharing of marginalized communities, amplifying voices that are often underrepresented in decision-making spaces.Before joining Avina in 2015, she served as deputy director for Proyecto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales (ProDESC), where she advocated for labor, land, and territorial rights across Latin America. She also held roles with the International Center for Transitional Justice and Amnesty International in New York City and worked with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). Valeria holds a BA in Political Science and Public Administration from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and a master’s degree in international relations from Columbia University in New York.