Yalitza Aparicio To Become UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

25-year-old Mexican actress Yalitza Aparicio will be appointed as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador on Friday. Aparicio was the first indigenous woman to be nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards for her brilliant performance in Roma, where she plays the role of a housemaid in 1970’s Mexico City who deals with troubles of abandonment, belonging to a family that both includes her and outcasts her as the help.
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There’s no better person for the job, considering Aparicio has been chosen for advocating in favor of gender equality and of indigenous communities, a portion of Mexico and Latin America that has been historically oppressed and sidelined. Aparicio will be working in defense of indigenous peoples for a two-year term, said the UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) on Tuesday in a statement.

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The ceremony for which Aparicio will officially be named Ambassor will take place on Friday at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
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