I started EcoStudio Foundation with dear friends to support frontline communities and conservation initiatives in Ecuador. As we send out our 2023 impact report, I’d like to share a story behind how it started.
This report is dedicated to Fernando Alcibíades Villavicencio Valencia (1963-2023), who fearlessly fought corruption as an activist, journalist, lawmaker, and, finally, presidential candidate. In August, he was killed for his commitment to justice.
His legacy, however, will never die.
The water was wide and flat and it crawled over stones. Low in summer, the river became a rocky bed of pools. Pregnant with snowmelt in the first cracking days of spring, it was a force you did not enter.
