José Gualinga Montalvo, also known as Angun, is a leader of the Kichwa People of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon. He currently serves as an advisor to the Tayjasaruta (Sarayaku Governing Council) and previously served as its president (Tayak Apu). He is the son of the late yachak (spiritual leader) Sabino Gualinga. José Gualinga authored the proposal for the Declaration of Kawsak Sacha (Living Forest), a central initiative in Sarayaku’s defense of their territory as a living being, presented to the General Assembly of the ICCA Consortium in Montreal in 2018. In 2012, Sarayaku won a landmark case against the Ecuadorian State at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.