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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
VIVIR PLENAMENTE
ABOUT ME
I am a psycologist from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Bucaramanga. Since 2004, I have got positions in diferent branches of my field including social labor in poor communities, gender, human rights, mental health and so on. In the last years I have worked as a consultant in mental health in Santander local governmet (northwestern Colombia), university professor, and at the same time, I have been working as a human rights activist in the NGO "Social Oxigen" , in this organization I held a position as co-founder and vice-president. In this year, I finish my Master of Arts in Cultural Mediation and Citizen Participation (third edition), from Universitat de Valencia (Spain), thanks to these studies I wide openly my professional perspectives in my field of expertise. During my professional life I have received many distintions among them I was selected by Human Heartshare Service of New York as Colombian Intership holder (2006-2007), Bilboa Local Goverment Fellowship in International Cooperation (2008) and international training programme fellowship in �Human Rights, Peace and Security
PHILOSOPHY
A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hotwater”(Nancy Reagan)
Interests
Travel around the world and sharing experiences with other people like me :)
- arts
- human rights
- traveling
- teaching
Music, Movies, and Books
I like and enjoy all kind of music.
Countries I’ve Visited
Brazil, Cambodia, France, Italy, Peru, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, United States, Venezuela
Countries I’ve Lived In
Colombia, United States