ABOUT US
We are a Colombian-Swiss family that believes in new ways of healing the world and the historical wounds between the Global North and South. We do this through co-creation and corazonar — reasoning with the heart — weaving new perspectives and relationships in which everyone can be part of the solution by contributing their own strengths. In this spirit, Wuasikamas Switzerland seeks to integrate both forms of knowledge — Swiss and Indigenous — to promote Biocultural Peace worldwide.
Cristina Rodriguez Munoz
Founder and
Co-president
Ana Cristina Rodríguez Muñoz is a mother and a pollinator of biocultural peace. With more than 20 years of experience, she weaves words to reclaim the continuity of ancestral knowledge, sowing seeds of safeguarding and healing the roles of Indigenous women. She promotes spirituality as a mechanism for the protection, respect, and visibility of the ancestral knowledge of Indigenous peoples. For 15 years, she worked as a coordinator of commercial work teams in companies and organizations within the health sector in southern Colombia (Valle del Cauca, Cauca, Nariño, and Putumayo). She also has four years of experience as a coordinator of social projects with Indigenous communities in the departments of Caquetá, Cauca, Putumayo, and Nariño, accompanying the National Organization of the Indigenous Territorial Entity AWAI of the Inga people of Colombia through the Suma Kausai Colombia Foundation, as well as four years of experience as a cultural and pedagogical manager in the international organization Wuasikamas. She holds a Master’s degree in Marketing from the University of Nariño and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, as well as a Technologist degree in Financial Administration from CESMAG University.
Reto Regez
Founder and
Co-president
Reto is the founder and co-president of Wuasikamas Switzerland. He holds an eMBA in Innovation Management and brings over 15 years of experience in leadership, digital transformation, and social entrepreneurship. As a passionate hiker in the Alps, he experiences firsthand how deeply nature shapes our lives and understands that its protection is a shared responsibility. This awareness drives his commitment to environmental conservation. Knowing that the destruction of nature in the Global South also has direct consequences for the North, he dedicates himself with deep conviction and heart to Wuasikamas Switzerland, supporting indigenous communities in Colombia’s Andean-Amazonian region with resources and know-how so they can lead dignified lives and preserve nature for all of us.
Hernando Chindoy Chindoy
Founder and member
of the Board
Chindoy, Hernando, Colombia (1976). He is Laureate of the Marianne Initiative, France (2025), Honorary Doctorate in the field of climate studies Traditional Knowledge of indigenous peoples, London (2023), University Expert in Human Rights, Madrid (2013). Since 2003 he promotes Wuasikamas-Guardians of the Earth, as an indigenous political, cultural and spiritual response to confront and end armed conflict, deforestation, drug trafficking, pollution, poverty, hunger and discrimination, awarded the Equator Prize 2015, awarded by the Equator Initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He has contributed to global dialogues on IQ and LK for GEO-7/UNEP and matters of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework/Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In 2024, he created Ëconeêrã—Medicines that Heal the Earth—to contribute to safeguarding biodiversity through higher education that strengthens biocultural peace and human flourishing. Wuasikamas Ëconeêrã was awarded the Earthna Prize 2025 by the Qatar Foundation. Chindoy is an International Advisor to the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Natalia Peralta
Founder and member
of the Board
Natalia, founder and board member of Wuasikamas Switzerland, grew up in Colombia among the forests of Santa Elena (Medellín), where she learned to see nature as a guide and teacher. She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication and gained several years of experience in regional television in Colombia. She later continued her path in Switzerland, where she earned a Master’s degree in Visual Communication and currently works at the Wyss Academy for Nature as a multimedia designer and communication expert. There she strengthened her vocation to contribute to addressing the environmental and social challenges humanity faces today, using storytelling to create spaces for reflection and to highlight possible paths toward solutions. With more than 15 years of professional experience, a journey of reconnection with the Wuasikamas of Aponte deepened her purpose of weaving together her Colombian roots with her present in Europe, committing herself to protecting biodiversity and fostering biocultural pathways for peace between the Andes and the Alps.