Mario Kleinmoedig

(Curaçao, 1960) is a mass communication expert who is also an international journalist and socio-political activist. He studied sociology and Mass Communication at the University of Utrecht. In the 1980's and 90's he worked as a journalist for several written and electronic media in Europe and the Caribbean, among others the International Press Agency IPS, which focusses on developmental issues and news and issues from the Global South. Afterwards he worked in Curaçao as an information and education specialist in the areas of schooling, drug-prevention, the environment and nature. The last two years he has worked as international press officer at ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Intersex association) in Brussels, Belgium. Presently he is also a supervisor of the Pink Orange Program aiming at emancipation of sexual diverse communities in the Dutch Caribbean. Mario Kleinmoedig is co-founder of the Curaçao Environmental and Human Rights Movements. As writer, actor and storyteller in the 1990's he was part of the storytelling collective Lingua Franca. He published an ecological storybook for children Zum zum di Shinshon, in 2005.