Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo
Mexican environmentalist
Martha Isabel "Pati" Ruiz Corzo (born 17 January 1953) is a Mexican environmentalist. She is the founder of the Sierra Gorda Ecological Group, which has successfully led grassroots efforts to conserve the Sierra Gorda in central Mexico since 1987. In 2013, she was named a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Early and personal life
Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo was born on 17 January 1953 in Mexico City. She grew up in a wealthy family in Santiago de Querétaro in the central Mexican state of Querétaro. She is most often called "Pati", a nickname derived from the childhood nickname "pata" that her sister called her. Pati took up the violin at age 12, and as a teenager, she became the first violin in the Querétaro Philharmonic Orchestra, a position she held for five years. For 16 years, she taught music at the John F. Kennedy School in Querétaro. She married an economist named Roberto Pedraza Muñoz (born 1950) and had two sons, Roberto ("Beto") and Mario.
However, Ruiz Corzo eventually grew dissatisfied with modern city life.
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