Executive DirectorFundo Casa Socioambiental
Maria Amalia Souza is Founder/Director of Strategic Development of Casa Socio-Environmental Fund. Her career of 38+ years was dedicated to designing strategies that assure philanthropic resources reach the most excluded communities working on social and environmental justice issues in the Global South. She is on the Board of Directors of AIDA-Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, served for 6 years in the Human Rights Funders Network Steering Committee, and is co-founder of both the Comuá Network - Philanthropy for Social Justice and the Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur•Socio-Environmental Funds of the Global South. She advocates for urgent resource distribution to the Global South through global lectures and engagement in international philanthropic spaces. In 2023 was honored by Global Landscapes Forum as one of "16 Women Restoring the Earth" and received the Up With People J. Blanton Belk Award for Outstanding Services to Humanity.