Daniela Alba

Bio

is originally from Colombia (muysca territory) and currently serves as the advocacy coordinator at the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat (SJES) of the Society of Jesus in Rome, Italy. She holds a master’s degree from The American University of Rome and a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College at the City University of New York. Daniela is committed to gender-based violence and cross-cultural advocacy with those who hold lived experience of displacement, the central theme of her TEDx talk. She is an alumna of the Nobel Women’s Initiative 2025 Sister-to-Sister Program, and has previously worked for the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), OXFAM and UNICEF Italia, and FAO.