Karla Sessin Dilascio

Karla Sessin Dilascio, with over 10 years of experience living and working in the Amazon, has a background working with indigenous peoples and traditional populations, serving as a mediator in highly complex conflicts related to hydropower dam infrastructure in the Amazon rainforest. As an environmental and process facilitation consultant, Karla has been involved in various projects, including indigenous prior consultation processes for jurisdictional governmental REDD+ programmes in Acre and Mato Grosso states and training and learning initiatives in environmental and social justice projects. 

In 2017, Karla co-founded the Instituto Fronteiras in Jurua Valley, where she co-creates processes with local peoples and communities to find innovative solutions to socio-environmental problems and expand the frontiers of life in the Amazon in collaboration with local forest communities.