Yoly serves as Senior Regional Communications Specialist for Latin America and Caribbean and content editor for Forests News in Spanish. She joined CIFOR in 2014 and is based in Lima, Peru. Yoly has covered several global conferences on climate change, biodiversity, and restoration in the Americas, co-authored a CIFOR publication on indigenous rights to land and leads the editorial decisions for publications in Spanish. She is fluent in Spanish, English and can communicate in Portuguese.