Alba Purroy, is a Venezuelan social activist and peacebuilder. Her focus is on supporting the strengthening of Venezuelan women at grassroots level to promote their representation where decisions are taken, and their contribution to conflict resolution, reconciliation and reconstruction of social fabric. She is currently a team member of the United States Institute of Peace, Nonviolent Action group as part of the Synergizing Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding (SNAP) facilitator network in Venezuela. She has created a special seven-part Women Peace and Security curriculum tailored to the Venezuelan context. They conducted a train-the-trainers workshop in April 2023, developing 12 WPS trainings achieving around 240 women in 6 different regions across Venezuela. 

Alba has been trained with the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) of Mennonite University in Virginia US on issues of Nonviolent Strategic Action, Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution. More recently, she received a Professional Development Certificate in Peace and Conflict Resolution from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand as a part of Rotary Peace fellowship award. She was awarded last May with the John Lewis Peace fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace. 

Participant in: October 2024 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes