José Luis Aranda Nucamendi Email & Phone Number

California, United States

California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Performed research and analysis for the Water Equity Taskforce, an initiative that partners with water and wastewater utilities, community organizations, and key stakeholders to build the organizational, policy, and partnership capacity to develop equitable water management practices

Tuxtla Gutiérrez Area, Mexico

Communications • Designed and implemented the Water Fund´s communication strategy, building its voice and identity across different platforms, including executive presentations, printed media, radio, video and social media content • Achieved and maintained unprecedented media coverage for the organization by both national and international media • Produced a radio show in coalition with local indigenous communities, environmental scientists, artists and media partners to raise awareness on biodiversity conservation and climate change. • Created contents for a capital campaign, a three year capital campaign to raise 1 million dollars to guarantee long-term operation requirements of the El Triunfo ReserveWater and Climate • Implemented the creation of the Chiapas Water Fund, a public-private technical and financial mechanism for long-term water management in the Grijalva river basin and the Sierra Madre region of Chiapas; this was the first Water Fund in Mexico • Built and led an alliance of stakeholders from public and private sectors, international agencies and local communities, to design and implement a long-term action plan for watershed management • Designed, built and managed a project portfolio that prioritized investments to protect and restore the hydrological environmental services provided by the Sierra Madre region • Reviewed, approved and supervised three grants for watershed management and climate adaptation projects in the Sierra Madre region. Tracked grantee progress • Wrote technical, financial and narrative reports for national and international donors

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Published more than 100 articles as a photographer and journalist in Mexico and Canada. Focused on travel, ecology, culture, art, and nature conservation. Publications include Travel and Leisure Mexico, Life & Style, National Geographic Online and others. Select publications: ◦ El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve | Escala Magazine | El Triunfo Rainforest, Chiapas| 2014 ◦ A Hole in the Heart of the Earth | That´s It Magazine| Silver mines in Wirikuta, San Luis Potosí | 2011

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Worked as director of photography in documentary feature films focused on social activism, art and science, nature and spirituality, undocumented migration, and collaborative economics • Filmed projects in California, Sri Lanka, Central America, Western Africa and Mexico • Collaborated with universities, art councils, local governments and non-government organizations • Highlighted films: ◦ Dialogue in Between | San Francisco, California | University of San Francisco | 2017 ◦ Muir Woods Awe Walk | 360 Video | San Francisco, California | Mindful Org | 2017 ◦ Abundance Stories #1 | Trans-media Documentary | CONACULTA | Mexico | 2016 ◦ Autrement | Documentary | Third World Network | 2014

Master Of Science - Ms, Environmental Management, 3,9

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Communication And Media Studies, 8.9

High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates, 8.9