Mariana Ríos is a Senior Consultant at Spring Impact, where she draws on nearly 15 years of international development experience to help mission-driven organisations design strategies and partnerships that achieve impact at scale. She specialises in systems change, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and capacity building, with a focus on gender equity, health, education, and justice.

Before joining Spring Impact, Mariana worked as an independent consultant supporting civil society and philanthropic institutions to co-design programs, facilitate strategic dialogue, and foster the conditions for collective impact. Previously, she was Project and Training Lead at RE!NSTITUTE, where she led large-scale initiatives across Mexico, the Dominican Republic, the US, and the UK to catalyze systems change, delivering results that strengthened justice system responses, improved how health and education systems served communities, and built local capacity.

Earlier in her career, she directed the Alternatives to Incarceration Program at the Fortune Society in New York and led Technolochicas, a flagship Televisa Foundation initiative that became one of the most visible efforts to expand STEM education for Latina girls in the US and Mexico, in partnership with Intel, Univision, and NCWIT. She began her career in community health centers in the United States, working to improve healthcare access for underserved immigrant populations.

Mariana holds a Master’s degree in Social Work Management from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Universidad Iberoamericana.