Xananine CALVILLO

Xananine CALVILLO comes from the Ngiwa indigenous peoples in Puebla, Mexico. She is the co- founder of “Jna Tsjo" a women and youth-led initiative to protect traditional knowledge and native ecosystems in the Valley of Tehuacán.

As a community organizer for the youth climate movement in Mexico, Xananine leads territorial engagement in Legado Gaia (LEGAIA), a climate justice collective that focuses on amplifying environmental defenders' participation in climate advocacy. Internationally, she is part of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus and International Indigenous Youth Forum on Climate Change (IIYFCC).

Committed to protecting the ancestral food systems' biocultural heritage of indigenous peoples, Xananine works on the defense of agro-ecological and bio-centered food systems in Latin America, campaigning as a youth ambassador of the Stop Financing Factory Farming Coalition (S3F).

Xananine is majoring in Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), researching experiences of community-led climate justice and land defense movements in Latin America. Harnessing the potential of a social science that is committed and participatory of the global movements facing the threat of our time: the climate crisis.