Katherin Alfonso
Advocacy and Communications Coordinator, Latin America & the Caribbean
Katherin Alfonso is a communications and advocacy consultant with Global Financial Integrity. She is currently the liaison officer in Latin America around external communications, public affairs and advocacy of GFI’s issues of interest with civil society, partners, government institutions and politicians.
Prior to joining GFI, Ms. Alfonso was head of communications at the Jesuit Refugee Service in Colombia, an international NGO which works tackling humanitarian issues of migrants, refugees and internally displaced people. There she led the C4D strategies and campaigns for different projects funded by European Union, GIZ, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration from United States (PRM), among others, to create awareness about the humanitarian issues and to use media as a tool for peacebuilding.
Ms. Alfonso has worked for more than five years as a communication strategist for different NGO’s such as Cedetrabajo (GFI partner in Colombia), farmer associations and audiovisual agencies. Also, covered rural issues and agribusiness sector as a journalist in the most important economic newspaper in Colombia “The Republic” and other relevant media in South America such as Agribusiness Magazine, America’s Agriculture, Semana and TV Agro.