Josefina Klinger Zúñiga

Josefina Klinger Zúñiga was born in 1965 in Nuquí, Chocó, the only child of a Nuquiseño mother and a German father. She has 21 half-siblings. She worked as a salesperson in a drugstore. ==Mano Cambiada==

In 2006, Zúñiga founded the organization Mano Cambiada (Changed Hand) to promote sustainable tourism and eco-tourism in Chocó through engagement with the local population. She founded the organization alongside eight other women and four men. They collaborated with external stakeholders and joined with 30 different local businesses, including restaurants, hostels, guidance centers, fishing and farmers markets to develop sustainable tourism. Mano Cambiada promotes environmental and social initiatives that emphasize cultural identities of the Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities in the cove of Utría. The organization founded an environmental and cultural school that gathers dancers, musicians and environmental clubs in the Utría National Natural Park. Due to the success of the organization, the Colombian government granted it the right to administer tourist services within the Utría National Natural Park. ==Awards and honors==

Mano Cambiada was recognized by Semana magazine in 2012 as "one of the 100 social and environmental innovation ideas that are changing the world". In 2013, Klinger Zúñiga won the first place Premio Mujeres de Éxito in the social-community category. Klinger Zúñiga received a Cafam Woman Award (Premio Cafam a la Mujer) in 2015. ==Personal life==

Klinger Zúñiga lives in Nuquí and has three children. When she was 32 years old, she almost died from cerebral tuberculosis. She has previously lived in Medellín, Bogotá, Cali, Bahía Solano, Quibdó, and Panama. ==Notes==