Amaury Padilla is a peacebuilder and human rights defender, with extensive experience supporting organizational processes, political advocacy, and the defense of the rights of victims of the armed conflict. He has worked in radio and print journalism and has been a university lecturer. He served as an advisor to the Bolívar Department Government on peace issues and was the founder and coordinator of the National and International Cooperation Unit from 2000 to 2002. He has provided planning and organizational strengthening advice to Indigenous peoples in Putumayo, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and La Guajira, as well as to Afro-Colombian communities in the Caribbean region. Since 2004 and to the present, he has been a co-founding member of the Caribbean Agenda Network of Social and Human Rights Organizations. Since 2012, he has been the Director of the Cesar – La Guajira Development and Peace Program and was a founding board member of the Redprodepaz Foundation.