Siria Gastelum Felix

Resilience Director, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime Resilience Director, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

About this speaker

Siria Gastelum is the Director of Resilience at the Global Initiative. Siria started documenting community responses to organized crime in her own native state of Sinaloa, Mexico where she launched the #GIResilience Project in 2017. The #GIResilience Project was selected to be presented during the 2018 UN General Assembly in New York at the UN Solutions Summit. And, in 2019, the #GIResilience Project became the Resilience Fund.

Siria is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who has worked on radio, television and print media in Mexico, the United States and Canada. In 2008, she joined the United Nations Office in Vienna. She worked at the International Narcotics Control Board and the Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT).

Currently, Siria leads GI-TOC’s programming in Latin America and works on technology applications to empower civil society leaders to collaborate, learn from each other and tell their own story.

Talks

End extortion now

19 January 2022, 02:00 PM
D K Tuesday Reitano Vania Pigeonutt Riana Raymonde Randrianarisoa Ponelo Kalonga Ian Tennant Miloš Katić Edoardo Zaffuto Siria Gastelum Felix

31st CCPCJ Side Event: Communities on the frontline against organized crime

18 May 2022, 12:10 PM
Robert Riziki Luis Javier Campuzano Pina Ian Tennant Bubacar Ture Siria Gastelum Felix Kjersti E. Andersen Maria Isabel Cruz Bernal Hermanto Hasan Mark Shaw

11th UNTOC COP Side Event: Addressing the increasing links between arms trafficking and other forms of organized crime

20 October 2022, 08:00 AM
Romain Le Cour Grandmaison Nils Duquet Simonetta Grassi Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada Siria Gastelum Felix