For this episode, we have Elizabeth Gamarra. She is 24 years old, a TEDx speaker, Fulbrighter at Instituto Empresa (IE) University in Madrid, Pacific Forum Young Leader, and World Rotary Peace Fellow at International Christian University (ICU) is a Japanese Government MEXT PhD Fellow. 

She has a double Masters in the field of Mental Health (U.S) and Peace and Conflict Studies (Japan) which has permitted her to work as a therapist and mediator with refugee and indigenous communities, drawing on her Spanish and Quechua heritage languages. At age 14, she founded "Generations of Legacies" which is an initiative focused on educational empowerment. 

After completing her graduate-level studies at the record age of 19, she continued to grow this initiative from abroad. She has worked closely with Amnesty International USA, the Center of Migration and Refugee Integration, the Global Peacebuilding of Japan, Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI) the Academic Council of the United Nations Systems Tokyo Office (ACUNS), and currently, interning at the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. 

She is the former recipient of the 2020 TUMI USA National Award, the Martin Luther King Drum Major Award, Young Philanthropy Award, the Mediation Akin Olawore Peace Award, the Diversity and Equity University Award among others. Currently, she sits in the GPAJ Board of Directors, YCAPS Executive Committee, the World Federation Movement Working Group, the Justice Party Board of Directors, and is a Board of Trustees for Pax Natura International. 

Recently, she has co-founded the “RadioNatura Podcast," a unique multilingual podcast on peace and nature.