She is part of the Kichwa-speaking community and has spent most of her life advocating for better environmental protection of the Ecuadorian Amazon and the inhabitant wildlife as well as the people who are dependent on this environment.
[5] Her father is Anders Sirén, a Swedish-speaking Finnish[6][7] professor of biology[5] in the department of geography and geology at the University of Turku.
[12] At the age of eight, as the military had set their plan to invade the indigenous territory for oil exploration, she moved to Sweden.
[16][17][4] Her family was active in the Kichwa Sarayaku community's fight against the exploitation of the Amazon rainforest by companies and the Ecuadorian government.
[2] She is also active as an indigenous rights activist on an international level, with a focus on protecting homes and land against corporate interests.
[18][10] She was part of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Amazon Watch and Sarayaku Delegation to COP23 in Bonn and a speaker at the event.