After I graduated in 1990, I studied law in Bogota, but my life changed when I went to live in London. There I found my real vocation in education and became passionate about this new path. Words like transformation, equity, independence, opportunity, innovation, creativity, happiness inspired me, and I started a completely new life in early childhood education.
I founded Happy Time preschool in 1998, and in 2013 created a non-profit foundation called Tiempo Feliz. Here we educate children providing equal educational opportunities, with a system that invites children to create, dream, explore, and believe in themselves. I see early childhood as an instrument of transformation.
I currently work in Happy Time and in the foundation Tiempo Feliz and every day I work to change lives in our cities and society.
What is your greatest professional or personal achievement to date?
One of the schools of Foundation Tiempo Feliz was nominated for Alas – Bid award as best center of Latin America.
I was also nominated as Mujer Cafam “Obras visibles, mujeres invisibles” for impacting and changing lives of more than 89,000 children of vulnerable zones in the Caribbean coast of Colombia
How did KCP prepare you for your career?
The educational philosophy of KCP gave me the bases and structure of how to build knowledge. I learned to learn, to know how to find different paths for the same problem and to always innovate. Having chosen education as my way of building society is a reflection of what I experienced and learned in KCP.
Why are you proud to be KCP?
I am proud to be KCP, because it was a place where I learned to BE, to understand the reality of the country and dream of transforming lives
What advice would you give KCP students?
I invite you to dream, work hard every day for a better society, do what you love and give back to the world all of the opportunities life has given you. Be always grateful for life, your family, and your country.
