Mara Tissera Luna
Collaborative on Global Children's Issues
Mara Tissera Luna is a 2024-2025 collaborative fellow at Georgetown's Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues. She is an international consultant focused on understanding the root causes of forced displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean and improving protection responses for displaced populations (such as children, LGBTQI+ individuals, and women survivors of gender-based violence).
She was previously the program manager for the Breakthrough Series Collaborative on Promoting Early Childhood Development (ECD) for Young Children on the Move in Northern Central America, an effort funded by the Bainum Foundation to learn from innovative community-based responses to address the ECD and protection needs of young children experiencing displacement in Guatemala.
- Provided applied research, evaluations, and advisory services on 17 projects for 16 universities, NGOs, INGOs, and UN agencies in 14 countries focusing on child protection, gender-based violence, forced migration, decolonization, participation, and localization. Her research and evaluations in the Americas and Europe have contributed to over 25 reports, guides, and short articles.
- Holds a sociocultural anthropology degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master of Public Administration degree from Central European University. She also has a graduate diploma in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and an Afro-Latin American and Caribbean studies certificate from Harvard University.
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