Helena Gualinga
Helena Gualinga was born on February 27, 2002. She belongs to the Indigenous Kichwa Sarayaku community in Pastaza, Ecuador. Her mother, Noemí Gualinga is an Indigenous Ecuadorian former president of the Kichwa Women's Association. Her older sister is the activist Nina Gualinga. Her aunt Patricia Gualinga and her grandmother Cristina Gualinga are defenders of Indigenous women's human rights in the Amazon and environmental causes. Her father is Anders Sirén is a Swedish-speaking Finnish professor of biology in the department of geography and geology at the University of Turku.