Sergio Moncada-Leiva Email & Phone Number

New York, NY

• Led campaigns to protect and develop three national parks in the northeast U.S. Developed and nurtured rapport with stakeholders from the public sector (public elected and appointed officers at federal, state and local.
• Led coordination among 30+ stakeholders (incl;. electeds; historians; landscape designers; and advocates for LGBTQ+ equality) around visioning and fundraising to establish a $5M visitor’s center at Stonewall National.
• Guided and led a team through Stonewall National Monument-anchored partnership with NYC Department of Education that has brought 1,000+ students to the site to learn from rangers about the site’s significance.
• Shepherded the planning for advocacy campaigns in NJ, NY, and PA to preserve lands connecting with national parks, leveraging them for wildlife climate migration corridors, and ensuring national parks help fuel local.

New York, NY

• Guided 42 member organizations through processes to build strategic, fundraising, and scientific/technical capacity. Developed partnerships with nongovernmental organizations and industry to address emerging issues.
• Secured USD 600K in foundation grants. Crafted narratives, developed metrics, and curated budgets for Waterkeeper Alliance and member organizations’ proposals for projects that ensure drinkable, swimmable, and fishable.
• Formulated successful ‘ask’ that Waterkeeper Alliance President and CEO delivered to Government of Perú high officials and led to official de-prioritization of large-scale dam building in Perú's Amazon basin.
• Developed versatile portfolio of external-facing communication assets for various audiences: magazine (est. 650k readers), blog (26k unique visits/month), funders, and government.

New York, NY

• Built and launched stakeholder mapping and developed and calibrated approaches to spur among food industry, benchmarks that ensure animal welfare policies in the supply chains of key stakeholders in food industry..
• Determined targets for a shareholder activism campaign with USD 75K in initial investments and shares in 15 leading, publicly traded food companies.
• Developed content for ASPCA-sponsored animal welfare syllabus at University of Florida’s veterinary forensic sciences program, eventually developing into first such curriculum in U.

Washington, DC

• Led three farm animal advocacy campaigns that attracted USD 1.5M in investments. Built from the ground up, oversaw, and sustained a remote team of seven staff members across four countries. Conceptualized, developed.
• Led successful campaign that persuaded Mexico’s --and (at the time) world’s-- largest pig producer to phase out practice of extreme confinement of mother pigs, first victory of its kind in Latin America.
• Stewarded relationships with 30+ external stakeholders across public and private sectors, with wide array of perspectives - from grassroots advocates to established non-profit organizations to businesses to local.
• Developed and executed communications campaigns that raised awareness of environmental footprint of industrial animal agriculture, prompting action among an audience of 250K Spanish speakers in U.S. and Latin America.

Msc, Environmental Sciences And Policy

Bba, Business Administration And Sociology

Anthropology