Silvia Fernández is a social and human rights activist, and one of the Program Directors at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC), where she supports the organization’s global membership and drives its advocacy efforts.

Silvia has worked with ICSC since 2008, helping to build the capacity of historic sites, museums and memory initiatives around the world through trainings and workshops, collaborative projects, cross-regional exchanges, and advocacy campaigns. She has ample expertise leading the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects devoted to transforming sites of trauma into centers for positive social change.

Silvia also oversees the work of ICSC-Europe, ICSC’s subsidiary regional entity constituted in 2015 to expand the work of Sites of Conscience in Europe and around the world.