Yazmin Ramirez is a Colombian artist with 20 years’ experience in developing strategies for peace and reconciliation through exercises and artistic processes with vulnerable populations. As an actress, she has contributed with her experience to the formulation of public policy on children and women at national level and in the department of Cundinamarca, and compiled memories of the process to produce the play Otilia with the Juaica Terra group. As a singer and composer she has collected memories of the processes she went through with communities of victims of the armed conflict in Colombia and with reintegrated former combatants who took part in the artistic processes. She has worked in depressed and vulnerable communities in the Amazon, North Santander, Cundinamarca and Tolima. She has been involved in the development of educational processes for children’s and young people’s rights, gender equality and environment in the department. She has lived in the rural area of Tabio Cundinamarca for the last 20 years. 

Participant in: March/April 2022 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes