Patricia Cota Gomes

Coordinator of the initiative Origens Brasil, of Imaflora

Forest engineer with a master’s degree in tropical forest management. She works at the Brazilian NGO Imaflora as a projects manager, and currently coordinates the Origins Brasil® initiative, which aims to promote new business models in the Amazon, valuing transparency and products coming from traditional populations and indigenous peoples. She has 17 years of experience with the implementation of socioenvironmental certification and traceability systems for products of an extractive origin coming from small producers and traditional populations of the Brazilian Amazon.