Fernanda Lugo

Fernanda Lugo is an environmental activist in her community in El Paso, Texas, and is the Outreach and Media associate for Alliance For Just Money, and a steward with the American Monetary Institute. If monetary matters are new to you, you can learn about it in plain language from her video presentation here.

Fernanda works at the national level raising awareness and building bridges between organizations that could benefit from knowing more about our deep-rooted systemic problems, including a currency created from debt. Fernanda always asks what’s one layer below a problem, or what is upstream. She volunteers with Citizens’ Climate Lobby, where she first realized how the economic system can be utilized to incentivize or disincentivize certain behaviors, such as polluting.

Fernanda has a Master’s in biobehavioral health from Penn State, and experience in health research in family health, health disparities as well as environmental health. She investigates and shares sustainable nature-based solutions and works to grow local social capital, by facilitating working groups to obtain grants that can help her community build and create, with a creativity endangered by the forces of capitalism.

She believes one of the missing links is simply the power to organize people with resources, empowering people to question the nature of what we call money. The power of money—but also barter and exchange— can help us meet the goals of a just society, with planetary wellbeing and optimized human health. She works towards a Just Transition, including land restoration and soil remediation, and believes fields sustaining our ecological health can have access to livable wages, healthcare, and dignified work. 

Fernanda practices and offers eco-crafts, and eco-exhale yoga in her local community of El Paso and occasionally online (see offerings! https://lumiferz.wixsite.com/fernanda-lugo ). She is currently learning to facilitate collaborative murals and is creating a collective vision of a just and democratic economy singing tree. She is an avid learner of permaculture, foraging, herbalism, and languages.

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Alliance For Just Money; American Monetary Institute
Citizens’ Climate Lobby; Fernanda Lugo