About Mariana

NOW:

Mariana Prieto is the Founder and Director of Blue Horizons at Conservation International — the first design-led innovation studio embedded within an international conservation organization. Her team is dedicated to innovation, communications, and scaling global ocean conservation efforts, while overseeing the integration of human-centered design and creative confidence across the organization.

She currently serves on the Board of Trustees at ArtCenter College of Design.

THEN:

Launching her career in the early days of design for social impact, Mariana has been at the forefront of design-led innovation for humanity, climate, and conservation.

She started her career as an IDEO.org Global Fellow and has since led design and innovation teams in partnership with IDEO, IDEO.org, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, WildAid, Who Gives a Crap, Polymath Ventures, and many others.

Mariana was a founding member of the International Rescue Committee's innovation center, Airbel Impact Lab, where she led teams working on the Ebola crisis in West Africa and the redesign of refugee resettlement across the United States.

Prior to joining Conservation International, she founded Design for Wildlife, a creative collective dedicated to pioneering human-centered design for wildlife conservation challenges.

Mariana's work has taken her to live in five cities over ten years, and she has finally settled down in Los Angeles, California with her family. At least for now.