retorno seguro a la escuela

BY Ana Rodriguez FROM MEXICO

Retorno Seguro a la Escuela (Safe return to school challenge)
The project consolidates the efforts from the Safe Return to School program, developed last year by young activists and also one of the winning local actions projects last 2021. This round will focus on the mobilization of key actors and advice to authorities to create municipal public policies to build roads that do not kill our dreams.

Retorno Seguro a Clases will address the challenges for youth activists in Mexico. The implementation of Retorno Seguro a Clases will lead to road safety projects that addresses the issue of dangerous school zones. The project will involve the schools in the generation of local diagnoses, tactical urbanism interventions, and in committing and working with authorities to guarantee a safe return to schools in a post-pandemic world.

The goal of the project is to guide three teams of young leaders and activists in an annual process of influencing municipal public policies which scales up the impact of the pilot projects in other cities.

ABOUT THE PROJECT LEAD

Ana is an architect, urban planner, and urban activist. She led the movement of La Banqueta se Respeta where she promoted the citizen initiative of the Accessibility and Mobility Law for the state of Nuevo León. She was also a FONCA Young Creators Fellow 2015-2016 and TEDx speaker in 2017 with the talk Caminando en la Ciudad. She is currently the General Coordinator of Liga Peatonal and Professor of architecture at the Monterrey University
(U-ERRE) since 2019.

She moved to Guadalajara to pursue a Master’s Education where she completed research on Transport Oriented Development (TOD) as a development tool in Monterrey. She has a volunteering experience in TECHO, a Latin American base organization working on urban slums, and other community spaces. Professionally, she has experience in urban mobility, design participation, and architecture.

ABOUT THE LEAD ORGANISATION

liga paetonal

Liga Peatonal is a non-governmental organization that works to transform cities for the benefit of pedestrians. We organize a national network with more than 50 organizations and youth activists in different parts of Mexico.

We have a work team made up of a General coordinator, three operational coordinators (Communication, Human resources and National congress) and two technical coordinators (Public health and Urban design).