About ReSiMar
Our Story
Born from B-Corp certified, regenerative boutique hotel, Playa Viva’s commitment to community-based regeneration, ReSiMar (Regenerating from Sierra to Mar) takes a systemic approach to restoring ecosystems and improving community well-being. Focused in the Juluchuca micro-watershed, acting as a lab, our work spans forests, farms, rivers, and oceans to create long-term resilience and a replicable model for small coastal community regeneration.
Our Approach
We regenerate natural and human abundance by integrating five core nodes:
Marine Conservation
Protecting sea turtles, mangroves, sustainable fisheries, marine ecosystems and a special project: Jaguar conservation.
Regenerative Education
Strengthening students’ academic skills and helping them reimagine their ecosystem to inspire participation that fosters community wellbeing and local pride.
Permaculture
Supporting a burgeoning women's cooperative, sustainable agriculture, and ranching to bolster the local economy.
Water Monitoring & Conservation
Promoting clean, healthy water through science and stewardship.
Gender
Empowering women, fostering leadership, and creating opportunities to build fairer and more resilient communities
Meet Our Node Leaders
Gender Node:
Osmaira Hernandez
Osmaira Hernández is a hopeful environmentalist with a degree in Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Development from the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla. In the last five years, through volunteering, academic, and now professional projects, Osmaira pursues initiatives focused on reconnecting people with their natural environment and the regeneration of the Juluchuca watershed. Today, she focuses her efforts on the Mujeres de la Tierra (Women of the Earth) cooperative, a project born from the need to add value to agricultural products to achieve fairer prices for local producers, and from the opportunity to generate dignified employment for women, while simultaneously creating a safe space for women within the community.
For Osmaira, regeneration is about returning to our origins while evolving simultaneously. It is remembering that we are here to sustain life and live in harmony with all that makes it possible.
Every step she takes with Mujeres de la Tierra is an opportunity to build community and regenerate the social fabric that enables self-management and governance processes: a goal that guides our work at ReSiMar.
What's your favorite thing about your work?
Osmaira: My favorite part of the work is being able to connect with people, to facilitate and create safe spaces for vulnerability and learning in environments where we reconnect with the soil and ancestral knowledge.
Education Node:
Ximena Rodriguez
Ximena Rodríguez is a passionate Sociologist with a degree in Sociology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), who has dedicated the past seven years to teaching, both in city and rural environments. She employs the horizontal pedagogy method in which the students are the agents of active transformation. The regenerative methodology she shares with the communities looks to the ecosystem itself as an educator alongside holistic strategies for meaningful learning. Ximena is passionate about how learning has the power to make strong and resilient communities and believes that with education, art, and nature, a critical, sustainable and cooperative way of living emerges.
What's your favorite thing about your work?
Ximena: I love having the opportunity to recognize my limitations and growth by finding learning opportunities in multiple moments, in different spaces, and from diverse perspectives.
Marine Conservation Node:
Currently Recruiting
We are currently looking for a motivated individual with professional experience in the marine conservation field who is excited by a new challenge. The Marine Conservation Node Leader works alongside three other node leaders to drive the wider watershed regeneration program so a collaborative mindset, ability to work and live in a rural community, and Spanish and English fluency is key.
If you would like to apply please send your CV/ Resume and a cover letter to info@resimar.org
Water Node Leader:
Viridiana Contreras
Viridiana Contreras is a Biologist with a master’s degree in Biological Science from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), who has more than 6 years of experience working with anthropological effects in wildlife from Low Deciduous Forests to freshwater. In addition, she has more than 5 years of experience creating science dissemination content on social media to promote the respect and protection of wildlife and natural spaces. Viri’s work as the Water Node leader is to connect young people from the watershed’s High school with their surroundings and highlight the importance of living near healthy inland water bodies and ecosystems. Viri promotes learning to engage in community science and to remember the value of coexisting with nature within the Juluchuca watershed. She is excited to see the community reconnect with the ecosystems around them to understand, protect, and heal them.
What's your favorite thing about your work?
My favorite part is seeing how surprised and excited people are when they discover and fully understand the cycles of nature. Also, I love to see how our work enables the recovery of ecosystems. And finally, I am very happy to make science a space suitable for everyone, because I firmly believe that it is meant to be shared with society and that change can be achieved through wonder.
Meet our Node Advisors
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Martin Goebel Director LegacyWorks Group Mexico
Founder and Ex-Director, Sustainable Northwest
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James Honey, Director of Programs at LegacyWorks Group
Ex-Director of El Mangle, Reflexión y Acción; La Paz, y, ex-Director at Sustainable Northwest; Portland, Oregon.
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Water Node Advisor: Maria Teresa Gutierrez
CEO Fondo para la Comunicacion y Educacion Ambiental FCEA and developer of the agua.org.mx national program. . Leader of the watershed and community laboratory (including citizen science, large-scale sanitation, and derived eco-technologies) in Manialtepec, Oaxaca.
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Marine Conservation Node Advisor: Pablo Castro Moreno
Director of Natural Resources at LegacyWorks Group México; Coordinator at BCS ProNatura Noroeste; and Consultor INAPESCA
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Regenerative Education Node Advisor: Patricia Vázquez del Mercado
CEO Mexicanos Primero, Ex-Secretary of Education for the State of Puebla, and founder of the ‘Enseña por México’ model in Puebla.
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Permaculture Node Advisor: Amanda Harris, Gente Viva
Director of the Gente Viva Permaculture Farm and Regional Food Hub; Agroforestry Lead at Tierra Foods; and Founder and Lead Designer at Servicios Mufeli, a regenerative landscaping company based in coastal Guerrero.
Our Impact Partners
LegacyWorks Group (LWG) is a hybrid, impact-driven organization that weaves together community action, technical expertise, and regenerative finance to tackle some of Mexico’s most pressing ecological, economic, and social challenges. Anchored in the East Cape region of Baja California Sur, and with strong alliances in Guerrero and Jalisco, LWG leads the Sierra a Mar model a scalable, place-based approach to restoring ecosystems, revitalizing local economies, and strengthening community resilience.
With over 75 years of combined leadership experience, LWG brings deep roots in field-based knowledge and the development of impact initiatives at multiple scales across Mexico and the United States, energized by the creativity and commitment of an emerging generation of regenerative leaders.
Through its partnership with ReSiMar, it activates technical, narrative, and community capacities to regenerate territories from within. Its work is grounded in active listening, shared authorship, and a long-term vision to co-create thriving futures for the ocean, the land, and those who call them home.
Mexicanos Primero is a civil society organization that promotes and defends students’ right to learning. It researches, shares, and monitors Mexico’s public education policies to ensure decisions support the learning of children and young people. Through the MONITO platform, it also provides access to educational statistics, indicators, and policies at both national and state levels.
Through strategic guidance, the development of educational partnerships, and connections to growth and training opportunities, they support ReSiMar’s women leaders and the schools within the watershed.
The goal of the FCEA is to induce behavioral changes in society that contribute to the restoration and sustainable use of Mexico's natural and cultural heritage, through the management of comprehensive communication projects aimed at specific audiences. To fulfill our work, the FCEA focuses its work on the communication-education axis and works along the following programmatic lines:
1. Access to reliable information on Mexico's environmental situation.
2. Capacity building among communicators, educators, and other strategic sectors.
3. Resource management to promote environmental education and territorial regeneration.
An educational movement with a strong presence across 19 states in Mexico, working to reduce educational inequality by developing children’s academic, socio-emotional, and cognitive skills.
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