Affiliations and Achievements:
• As consultant I provide financial support to NGOs, assisting them in their planning, programming, implementation, budget development and/or donor reporting.
• In 2003 I founded the organization Children of Mexico (www.childrenofmexico.net) in the Netherlands, which to date raises funds to support organizations that work with children at risk in Mexico and creates community within Mexicans living in the Netherlands. As Chair of the board I developed the business plan, planned the operational, budget and fundraising strategy for the organization, and guided the team towards achieving our goals. I set up the individual donor annual fund, built partnerships with funders and other organizations, revised project proposals from counterparts in Mexico and coordinated the development of the communication campaign.
• I am a community dance artist and dance therapist. As such, I have coordinated and participated in various projects that use dance as a tool for transformation and inclusion of youth at risk, in different countries like Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, the Netherlands and Canada.
• As a dance therapist I have provided individual and group dance therapy sessions to female immigrants and refugees in the Netherlands (mainly trauma related) and currently provide trauma informed yoga for youth at risk and women victims of violence.
• I hold workshops in various countries, for women to reconnect with their menstrual cycle as a source of wisdom, challenging the view of menstrual distress as pathology, developing awareness on women’s sexual and reproductive rights, promoting eco friendly menstrual practices and supporting education and livelihood possibilities for other women.