I love improv theater and for a long time I was super into tabletop role playing games.

I've been working on ecology issues for a while, on food sovereign issues, working for my organisation Entretantos.

We are big on participation issues, so on bottom up decision making processes work. And this connects a lot to land rights. This is very much connected to what we can do for the decisions around natural resources and around land, water, etc. Decisions need to be taken by the people who are going to be suffering the consequences or enjoying the consequences of those decisions.

There are a lot of things that I'm proud about and many of them are not very visible because it's the accumulation of little things that tend to make big successes.

A project I am proud of is a network that is called Ganaderas en Red, which means 'female live livestock farmers network'. And it is a network that is, to me, kind of different from the other ones.

It has been going on for a lot of years. So they have a long history. And so these women, they detected that the struggles that they were living as female livestock farmers make them very similar to each other even when their farms were far between. They work on technical issues and on things that are of course, related to their work, but what I find more inspirational is how they built a tight-knit intimacy network. And for me, it's very interesting how personal relationships and work relationships can intertwine. Networks that you form with people that you actually like a lot, they tend to make work more efficient and they tend to create outputs.

It is seen as if taking the time to build trust is some kind of setback and I think it's the opposite. I think this is a big part of our internal work, at Entretantos. Because our internal work is also horizontal, so things take a lot of time to be decided and things go back and forth and so on. But because we trust each other and because we actually like each other, there is a lot of taken out of decisions.

So, working in an organisation where you can trust that other people are going to do the right thing makes for better output.

I'd like to add an intuition that I've had in this last month, it's that experiential methodologies have a huge potential because for work that is very heart driven, but also very technical in the day-to-day things that we started doing from a place of strong beliefs, we tend to forget why we are doing what we are doing, because there's just so many things to do. And so these methodologies that allow you to slow down and reconnect with the 'why' you started doing the work is very powerful from a strategic point of view.

It is something that I just wrote an article about because it's something that I have been feeling very strongly lately: I feel that many of my urban friends in urban environmentalist movements would be so thrilled to know what has been happening for so long around communal land rights and the commons.

I think that a lot of people that are now very hopeless about, for instance, ever having a community, haveing a house, or having the power of decision making, I think they would be thrilled to know that there are places that are people led and to learn about the power of influencing your surroundings.

When I learnt about the common lands I was so surprised to know that this still existed and that the non-private based, non accumulation based, community led ways of governance still exist today.

When you're an activist, it's always portrayed as something that you will have to build from scratch but people are collectively managing millions of hectares of land and there is a lot left to be learned and there is a lot to be learned from older generations, who, as well, feel very lonely in their doings because they are not valued.

So, I feel like if these two poles would come closer to each other, keeping in mind that it cannot be another colonisation process where people from the urban tell the rural what to do to, it could be a common learning process.

Well, we are a member of IComunales, which is another organisation in Spain that is already an ILC member. But because we wanted ti give our work on communal land more space, we wanted to connect to people in other countries doing similar things.

Also, we are facilitating a national network, an Erasmus Plus project, with commoner women, women who are participating in traditional common lands, called Wonder Common Lands, and we wanted to get in touch with women in other countries.