Raimundo Espinoza

Raimundo Espinoza is the founder and Executive Director of Conservación ConCiencia. In 2022 he was named as one of the 100 most influential Latino’s working on climate activism, communications, environmental rights, sustainable policies, and science. With over 20 years of experience in marine conservation, he has closely collaborated with commercial fishers, non-governmental organizations, and governments in the U.S. and across the Caribbean and Latin America; his work focuses on creating unique opportunities to further conservation actions that combine sustainable development concepts on the ground and sea that directly benefit local human communities and the environment. Previously, he served as the Nature Conservancy’s founding Cuba program director and was also responsible for successfully establishing the Nature Conservancy’s operation in Puerto Rico. He’s served in the U.S. Caribbean Fisheries Management Council’s Outreach and Education Advisory Panel, and Puerto Rico District Advisory Panel as well as two terms on the Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee under the U.S. Department of Commerce. Raimundo continues to serve on NOAA’s Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel, and was previously a member of the Advisory Committee to the US National Section to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). Raimundo also served as a member of the Capitol Hill Ocean Week Advisory group, advising on strengthening diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice and which remain central aspects of his work with frontline communities and Conservation.