Joaquín Leguía is founder and executive director of "Asociación para la Niñez y su Ambiente - ANIA", in Peru. His mission it to help new generations bond with nature, develop active empathy for life, and adopt sustainable lifestyles that regenerate the natural world and human relationships. His projects include "Children's lands (TiNi)" methodology which has been recognized by UNESCO as a good practice of Education for Sustainable Development and has been institutionalized by the Ministries of Education of Peru (2015) and Ecuador (2017). Joaquin also promotes SDG18: Active Empathy for Life, a non-official sustainable development goal promoted from civil society. He is an Ashoka fellow and received a master of engineering management from Yale University and bachelor of science from Cornell University.