Antumalen Ayelen Antillanca Urrutia

Antumalen is a young Huilliche Mapuche from the southern Wallmapu/Chile, residing amidst Lake Ranco, the third largest lake in Chile, and belongs to the ancestral Mapuche community of Isla Huapi. Since 2020, in collaboration with her family, she has led the self-convened project "Epu Lafken Mapu," a collective that brings together Mapuche communities and scientific collaborators to monitor the water quality of the Ranco and Maihue lake basin. Antumalen is a defender of her lake, as she lives amidst it. To this day, her community still lacks drinking water and they take water directly from the lake. Therefore, her life goal as an islander generation is to fight for a healthy lake free of pollution.