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.<\/p>\n
I founded Happy Time preschool in 1998, and in 2013 created a non-profit foundation called Tiempo Feliz. <\/em>Here we\u00a0educate children providing equal educational opportunities, with a system that invites children to create, dream,\u00a0 explore, and believe in themselves. I see early childhood as an instrument of transformation.<\/p>\n I currently work in Happy Time and in the foundation Tiempo Feliz<\/em> and every day I work to change lives in our cities and society.<\/p>\n One of the schools of Foundation Tiempo Feliz<\/em> was nominated for Alas – Bid award as best center of Latin America.<\/p>\n I was also nominated as Mujer Cafam<\/em> “Obras visibles, mujeres invisibles”<\/em> for impacting and changing lives of more than 89,000 children of vulnerable zones in the Caribbean coast of Colombia<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kcp-alumni-profiles","category-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcparrish.co\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcparrish.co\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcparrish.co\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcparrish.co\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcparrish.co\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kcparrish.co\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/kcparrish.co\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcparrish.co\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcparrish.co\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcparrish.co\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcparrish.co\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is your greatest professional or personal achievement to date?<\/h4>\n
How did KCP prepare you for your career?<\/h4>\n
Why are you proud to be KCP?<\/h4>\n
What advice would you give KCP students?<\/h4>\n