25 Min Runtime
KM 82: The Porter Voices of Peru's Camino Inca
CONFERENCE SESSION: Peace Trails
Oct 1, 2024, 4:50 - 5:35 PM
Plenary Session
KM 82 is about the workforce inequities that the porters face on the Inca Trail and their struggle to create a more equitable mountain trekking industry. For over 50 years, the classic 4 day Inca Trail has been in operation and yet the porters who carry tourists’ bags up the mountains continue to fight for their dignity, fair pay and decent working conditions on the ground. KM 82 centers the voices of the Quechua porters who have been unheard on the issues for too long. It follows the story of Alberto Huamanhuillca, the Porter Federation president, and his advocacy for the basic human rights of porters and the Quechua community within the context of mountain tourism.
FILMMAKER
Marinel M. de Jesus, Esq.
Marinel M. de Jesus, Esq. is a former civil rights lawyer from Washington, DC, who turned her passion for hiking into a full-time endeavor as a social entrepreneur, solutions-focused journalist, and speaker.
She is the founder of the award-winning media platform, Brown Gal Trekker, and mountain trekking enterprise, Equity Global Treks, both of which aim to elevate the status and roles of women and indigenous communities in the outdoor and travel industries. Marinel is a full-time global mountain nomad and travels to mountain destinations regularly to explore adventure travel initiatives that are community-led and/or focused on female leadership in the industry.
In 2019, she founded the non-profit human rights organization, The Porter Voice Collective, which aims to advocate for the human rights of porters in Peru, Nepal, and Tanzania and Workforce Equity Tourism as a form of sustainable tourism through the use of storytelling and all forms of media.
