Elena del Hoyo specializes in transforming memory-centered and heritage-based grassroots organizations and institutions into agents of social change. She approaches critical heritage as a combative discipline with the power to intervene in existing power dynamics and navigate increasingly complex social contexts, amplifying voices often excluded from dominant historical narratives.

With extensive experience supporting and implementing global initiatives across Asia-Pacific, Latin America, MENA, and Europe, she holds expertise in co-creational, inclusive, and bottom-up approaches to member and stakeholder engagement and participation. Elena has also managed sub-granting processes for dozens of organizations, providing guidance throughout the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of their projects.

With an academic background in memorialization, critical heritage studies, and international affairs, she is particularly interested in dissonant heritage, the ethics of commemoration, and the contemporary political uses of the past.