Yulissa Trigoso Zorrilla is a young indigenous woman from the Yine people of Peru who has been working for more than a decade to defend her territory against different threats such as mining, illegal logging, among other activities that indigenous communities face every day. She has done hard work in empowering youth by creating a regional organization such as the Organization of Youth and Students of Madre de Dios, Peru. Another of the fundamental works she has done and continues to do is cultural revaluation through cultural events, small Yine and Shuar narratives, songs and the development of a database of Yine culture. Currently, one of the works she has started is the empowerment of indigenous women and the implementation of indigenous economy through the implementation of the Ikiam project in the Shuar Pampants community, in the Province of Morona Santiago, Ecuador.