Volunteers

Alexandra Ibragimova has been volunteering with CECAD since February 2016. She holds a Master degree in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary). Since graduating she has gained professional experience in biodiversity conservation, environmental policy and sustainable resource management. Before joining CECAD, Alexandra worked as a chief officer at Directorate for Protected Areas under the Ministry of Natural resources and Environment of her home region (Krasnoyarsk, Russia) where she administrated the establishment of new protected area.

Alondra Maradiaga is from Sinaloa, Mexico. She holds a bachelor degree in Political Science from the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology, commonly known as ITAM (Mexico City). Since graduating, Alondra has gained professional experience in both public and private sectors. Before volunteering with CECAD, she worked at the Mexican Ministry of the Interior where she oversaw the national programme “Access to Justice for Women”; and at the Ministry of Education, where she was in charge of the Department of Higher Education Scholarships and had the honour to offer studying opportunities to vulnerable students. Her interests lie in socio-economic development, gender equality, and crime prevention policies. Alondra aspires to formulate a strategy that effectively contributes to improving the livelihood of Mexican farmworkers and women who live in rural areas.

Sophia Collis is from Bermuda and will be volunteering at CECAD for three months from September to December 2019. Earlier this year, she graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, with a Bachelor’s degree in International Development. She spent her summer at home volunteering at the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST), where she conducted research on plastics and helped formulate policy that would lead to plastic reduction in Bermuda. With her passion for environmentalism, Sophia has strong interests in the fields of sustainable development and environmental management and hopes to continue her studies in Europe or the UK. She hopes to enhance her analytical and practical skills, while gaining a deeper understanding of the nature, causes and impacts of major types of environmental change, as well as the economic, social, legal, and ethical underpinnings of environmental responsibility and systemic solutions within different organizational contexts. In the coming year, she hopes to travel and continue doing volunteer work with a social and environmental purpose.