Fernando Cerón

Career As a teenager, Fernando Cerón Córdova was influenced by the leftist ideas of his grandfather, who was a leader of a trade union. When he was in his final year of secondary school, he was expelled for painting graffiti. At the age of 16, he co-founded the cultural collective Pandemonium, along with other young, through which they carried out social protest via street art and literature.

After rejoining and graduating from school, Cerón traveled to Quito and studied sociology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, where he participated in various theatrical, literary and artistic projects.

In 2017, Cerón was elected as the director of the Tungurahua chapter of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana (House of Ecuadorian Culture). At the age of 27 years, he was the youngest director in the history of the Tungurahua chapter of the organization.

After taking office, Cerón denounced the existence of individuals on the institution's payroll who were not performing any work, as well as other administrative irregularities, such as the use of institutional spaces for private purposes. In 2025, he was re-elected as president of the Casa de la Cultura.

Activism Cerón identifies himself as part of the LGBTQ community. In his role as an activist for the rights of gender and sexual diversity groups, he has been involved with the collectives such as La Bola Minoritaria ("The Minority Ball"), Ambato Dispar ("Diverse Ambato"), Colectivo Independiente de Derechos Humanos ("Independent Human Rights Collective"), and Colectivo Visión y Diversidad ("Vision and Diversity Collective").

He has also engaged in environmental activism, as a part of the Geo Juvenil ("Geo Juvenile") and Colectivo Yasunidos ("Yasunidos Collective").