Sara Omi is a lawyer, human rights expert, and President of the Territorial Coordinator Women Leaders of Mesoamerica

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Sara Omi

Sara Omi is President of the Coordinator of Territorial Women Leaders of Mesoamerica and an Embera leader from the General Embera Congress of Alto Bayano in the Darien forests of Panama. Indigenous Embera and Wounan communities number about 15,000 people in Panama, and most of the territory is the rainforest which the communities have managed for centuries.

As a proud Embere leader from the Alto Bayano Congress in the Darien forests of Panama, Omi is a lawyer, human rights expert, and the President of the Coordinator of Territorial Women Leaders of Mesoamerica.

The 36-year-old is the first woman in her community to have studied at a university and has amplified the voices of the Embera women through her profession while defending Indigenous communities against climate change, deforestation, and the impact on their lands.

Today across the Americas, Native American women have continued the arduous work of preserving the environment, pushing for Indigenous rights, and representing their diverse communities in business, government, and the arts.

Source: globalshaperspanama.com

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