As the Global Networks Program Director, Silvia Fernández leads ICSC’s programmatic work in Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa, helping to build the capacity of more than 350 members in 65 countries through trainings and workshops, collaborative projects, cross-regional exchanges, and advocacy campaigns. Silvia has worked with ICSC in various roles since 2008, providing overall support to its membership and leading the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects devoted to transforming sites of trauma into centers for positive social change.

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

Throughout her career, Silvia has worked for and collaborated with a variety of public and private institutions dedicated to a spectrum of human rights work including education, advocacy, and public engagement; organized conferences and workshops on human rights, memorialization, and transitional justice around the globe; and spoken widely in international fora on memorialization and new methodologies for human rights education and social change.