Daniel facilitates joint activities of 7 Mexican environmental organizations that make up the NOSSA coalition, whose objective is to strengthen the protection of Natural Protected Areas throughout the country, with emphasis on the Northwest.

Daniel holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and further studies in Social Impact and Indigenous Consultation in the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, and Intensive Care Transportation in the School of Medicine of UNAM along with lifelong learning courses and seminars on the social and environmental impacts of climate change.

In 2021, he was awarded as All-Decade Honoree for his participation in the Eugene Scassa Mock Organization of American States at St. Mary's College in El Paso, and Baylor University, in Waco, Texas.  

Working from both civil society organizations and international organizations, Daniel has actively advocated for the inclusion of vulnerable populations, indigenous communities and migrants in the implementation of environmental and climate change public policies in Mexico.  

Father to one kid, three dogs and a couple cats, Daniel is a search and rescue dog handler and volunteer paramedic who still enjoys the simplicity of navigating traffic on his bike and watching the urban fauna of public parks in Mexico City.