Katherine Martell is a Latin American practitioner specializing in gender equality, youth empowerment, and community-based approaches to violence prevention and peacebuilding. With over eight years of experience designing, coordinating, and evaluating multi-country initiatives, she has worked extensively with adolescent girls, women leaders, and grassroots organizations to strengthen protective environments, expand civic participation, and promote conflict-sensitive programming. Her work emphasizes developing safeguarding frameworks, building local capacity for early detection of gender-based risks, and facilitating cross-cultural learning among communities navigating structural inequality and social instability. Fluent in English, Spanish, and French, she brings a regional perspective to the Women, Peace and Security agenda, with a strong focus on participation and prevention as tools to advance inclusive, feminist, and context-responsive peacebuilding processes.

Participant in:

February 2026 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes