Marina Tota is ECON Executive Director responsible for leading strategic organizational development and network building. She is an organizer, activist, educator and researcher who believes in people’s power to create a just and regenerative society.

She has a background in psychology and education and over 10 years’ international experience in coordinating international projects, campaigns, trainings with civil society groups, organisations and movements for social and environmental justice. Originally from Italy, she has lived and worked most of her life in different communities, countries, and cultures. She worked with Actionaid’s Global Platforms in Africa, Asia and Central America and Europe coordinating political education trainings, participatory research, and developing the capacity of activists, organisers, volunteers, to lead organizing campaigns for climate justice, gender justice, and human rights. She contributed to the establishment of networks of activists and artists such as Activista Ghana and the African Creative Action Network.

She is committed to build relationships and intersectional solidarity for grassroots-driven systemic change.