About me
Mariano is a Board Member and Secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean for the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, and founder and president at Derechos Humanos y Diversidad Asociación Civil. He is also an SOGI Inclusion consultant for the World Bank on LGBTIQ issues. His extensive career includes positions as a consultant at IOM, project coordinator at Fundación AMAL Argentina, technical assistant at the Latin American Network of Trans Persons (REDLACTRANS), and staff of the Argentine LGBT Federation (FALGBT), Mariano has extensive experience in the management and design of international cooperation projects and public policies with impact on vulnerable populations, specially focused in LGBTIQ+ people and LGBTIQ+ Asylum Seekers and Refugees. In August 2018, he participated in the International Leadership Visitors Program on Human and Civil Rights for Marginalized Communities, organized by the United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. From September 2018 to July 2019, he has been awarded with RSFL (The Swedish Federation for Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Rights) Rainbow Advocacy Program scholarship. He has also been a fellow of the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum since 2015, having attended sessions in Salzburg (Austria), Chiang Rai (Thailand), and Kathmandu (Nepal) from 2015 to 2019. In 2019, he was awarded as one of Washington, DC's Human Rights Campaign Innovative Summit fellows. He participated as an envoy during the OutRight International Advocacy Week in New York City. In 2019, Mariano was awarded a scholarship to attend the Human Rights Advocates Program from the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University in New York. In 2023, he was awarded a scholarship from Global Affairs Canada to participate in the 41st International Human Rights Training Program from Equitas in Montreal, Canada. He is a member of the Harvard Global LGBTQI+ Changemakers Network.
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