Frieda G. Castellanos is a strategic advisor and communicator with more than 15 years of experience in the Inter-American system. She has worked with vulnerable communities as a volunteer interpreter and as a gender advisor for the security sector. She was selected by the Organization of American States/IADB, U.S. Southern Command, and U.S. Northern Command as their first gender focal point at the Inter-American Defense College, where she also became the first gender advisor (GENAD) to the Director and Commandant, serving two U.S. generals in that role.
Frieda has led institutional reforms, developed bilingual training on gender perspective and gender-based violence prevention for security and political personnel in the Latin American and Caribbean region, and helped shape WPS cross-sector policy efforts. She is recognized globally for her cutting work in podcast production and editing (end-to-end) in the security sector.