Marisol Rueda Flores is the Communications Officer for the Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative, based in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. She is in charge of managing social media for the 4 Mesoamerican countries as well as the website, participating in documentaries, setting interviews for all media outlets, assisting with technical writing of reports and translation of donor reports and grants and liaising with the partners to participate in conservation events and campaigns. She is AAUS certified and AGRRA Instructor certified for fish monitoring. She has participated in diverse environmental education programs focusing on environmental education, ecology and biology of marine invertebrates and their substrates, cetaceans, sea turtles, tortoises and vegetation in different countries like Mexico, Costa Rica and Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. She was our  Mexico Coordinator for 7 years (2010-2017) and worked in public policy for several themes related to reef conservation, such as protecting key species, improving water quality and the decrease in the consumption of single-use plastics. She earned her degree in Biology from Morelos State University in 2004 and later completed her Masters in Science on Marine Resource Management in 2007 at CICIMAR-IPN (La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico). She studied blue whales and collaborated as research assistant in different projects from population structure, fatty acids and isotopic change of several cetaceans in the Gulf of California. Her drive is sharing information with other people with effective communication and has been a passionate scuba diver since 1999. Her favorite hobbies are photography, underwater modeling, traveling and getting to know new cultures, extreme sports, dancing, and meditation.