One Health and Community Action
For over 20 years I have worked in different contexts characterised by lack of community, injustice, violence, exclusion and social empowerment. Based on my experience of working with various communities affected by war and mental health issues, I rely on art as a catalyst for personal transformation to contribute to One Health.
The Library for a Happy Future
At the Library for a Happy Future, I have been responsible for setting up the methods of intervention in the participatory action of the project we are carrying out around water and good living. I was also part of the team that created the concept of the library and implemented on these conceptual pillars in Zurich, Vals, Neuchâtel. Director Sonja Schenkel. Zurich. CH. 2023
Library-Park for Peace and Social Development
As a CEO, founder, and Project lead of the Artistic, Social, and Cultural Foundation Kuisi Gaita we developed a library-park for peace and social development. We worked on a culture of peace through inclusive art therapy programs that brought emotions out of the people, working out their traumas through music, film, theatre, poetry, and weaving practices. Sucre - Bolivar. Colombia. 2014 - 2019
Productive and Self-Sustaining Prisons
As CEO and General Director of Collembola Productora, we developed disruptive programs that promoted self-care, recognition of others, identity, and economic resilience programs in the women's prison "El Buen Pastor". We were three times winners of the City Awards for the best artistic projects with innovative components for social transformation, Bogotá DC - Colombia. 2012 -2015
UIA: Arte, Sociedad, Muerte
As Artistic director of the "Art Research Unit: Art, Society, Death", where we work on trauma, social transformation, and community art with marginalized groups living around the central museum cemetery in Bogota (homeless, prostitutes, street workers) making traumas and experiences of pain immersive experiences in this space. Bogotá DC - Colombia. 2005 - 2009:
UNUMA: Indigenous university
As Director of Programs at the Profesionales Amigos Foundation. In which we established the inaugural festival "FLECHA DE ORO" showcasing indigenous practices and knowledge, as well as the first university of traditional knowledge, UNUMA, for the Sicuini and Uitoto community within the indigenous reserve of ORIGPA in San Teodoro, Vichada. Bogota D.C. - Colombia. 2010 - 2014
