Region: Bolivia
Jesús "Franco" Gamboa-Rocabado
Jesús "Franco" Gamboa-Rocabado is a professor of political science and development studies at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, the most important public university in Bolivia. He is also the main advisor in strategic planning at the National Service for Personal Identification, the Bolivian flagship public institution that holds and render the rights for identity in Bolivia. An influential policy maker at the national level, Franco has dedicated himself to the democratization of Bolivia’s political system through positions with the Ministry of the Presidency, the mayor of La Paz, and Bolivia’s Constitutional Assembly. He also was consultant of the High Court of Electoral Affairs, and helped negotiate political agreements for Constitutional…
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Cecilia Barja-Chamas
Cecilia Barja-Chamas is a writer of narratives that mobilize to act on behalf of the ousted and disenfranchised. She works in the public sector and civil society leading complex multi-sector, multi-year, and cross-borders sustainable programs in her home country Bolivia and throughout Latin America. Being part of a new generation that started a new era of politics in Bolivia, and later as a team member that built systemic change toward sustainable development in the Pan Amazon and the peace process in Colombia, she has deepened her understanding of the complexity and beauty of social processes towards the common good. She was a Mason Fellow at the Ash Center at Harvard…
More InformationEpisode 17: 2017 World Fellow Rita Sciarra
Rita Sciarra grew up in Calabria in the south of Italy. She has worked in Bolivia, India, Dominican Republic, and also Haiti after the earthquake. She is a big believer in the United Nations.
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