Summary

Work experience

• Multimedia Narrative Consultant

  Colombia

  2024.11-Current

  (10 months)

  • I designed the narrative proposal for radio and print for the Comprehensive Plan for Migration Management of Colombia in 6 cities of the country.
• Country Specialist

  UNICEF Panama Office

  2024.01-2025.01

  (a year)

  • I researched on the impact of measures in favor of children and women in Panama with an impact on 12 public policies. It includes multimedia, video, digital and print content.
• Communications coordinator

  Quito Process

  2020.01-2024.01

  (4 years)

  • Facilitated +60 virtual and face-to-face workshops for 600+ officials for training on migration issues with 4.8/5 evaluation. • I led events with the participation of 13 countries, 10 agencies and 12 cooperating partners. • Developed the website, designed the brand, created videos, digital and print content, Q&A, editorials and press releases for regional media dissemination. Visible Hands of the Pacific of Colombia (2016-2018) • Visual report and photographs for national dissemination. Manos Visibles Corporation. Gabo Foundation-FNPI Award (2014-2016) • Content editor, translator and interviewer for digital, multimedia and written media. INSTITUTIONAL BOOKS: • Coopidrogas, 55 years (2024). I edited, researched and wrote the book about the most important pharmaceutics cooperative in Colombia. iM Editores. • Three centuries, one footprint. CCB (2018). I wrote and researched the history of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce. It was disseminated to the directors of Colombia. iM editors • FILBo, 30 years (2017), a commemorative book of the Bogotá International Book Fair, had great national media impact. Corferias and the Colombian Book Chamber. • Carajo! (2017), made visible in Colombia the impact of social protests in the Colombian Pacific and empowered 10 million Afro-Colombians. Visible Hands Corporation. • UNFPA B.A.1. Report on Gender-Based Violence (2016), used by in 7 Central American countries. I NARRATIVE AWARDS: • Inter American Press Association IAPA for Best Chronicle of the Americas (2004) • Deutsche Welle- Semana. Best Environmental Report (2014) • Procolombia Best Tourism Chronicle (2020) • Ibraco - National Contest The Brazil of Dreams (2014) • El Tiempo Awards. Best Chronicle, Report & Interview (Story of a cow that went crazy; The Woman in the Rebulú, It Wasn't Only the Jews and Larry King Live). • Finalist The Bobs Awards. Deutsche Welle. Best blog in Spanish (2011). • Conservation Int. Best Environmental Chronicle Honorable Mention, (2004) made videos and photographs of my own to reveal the regional problems. • Colombia, from heaven to earth (2015) by iM Editores, deluxe edition for collectors. LITERARY WORKS: • Tu historia cuenta (2025). Workshop book for children about the adventure of writing. In print. • La constancia del caracol. (2025). Biography of film director Sergio Cabrera. In print. • La sed (2024). Multimedia version 10 years. It includes music, theater and own photographs. • Será tarde cuando despierte (2019). Adopted by the Reading Plan of Colombia. 6 reprints. • Cuando Clara desapareció (2017). Adopted by 1,100 libraries in Colombia. Alfaguara. • Mariposas verdes (2017). Published with the homonymous film Green Butterflies, directed by Gustavo Nieto Roa. • Ni un paso atrás (2014). +4,000 editions sold, adopted by the Reading Plan. Seix Barral Stamp. 6 reprints. • La sed. (2013). +45,000 readers in Colombia. 14 reprints and commemorative edition. CORPORATE STORYTELLING & NARRATIVE JOURNALISM • Bogotá International Book Fair. (2014 – 2016). Editor and Director of Communications of the FILBo. +500,000 people, a record in history. Spokesman. Master of ceremonies. Coordinator of +1,600 events.
• Communication Specialist

  UNICEF

  2018.01-2020.01

  (2 years)

  LANGUAGES English: Fluent-advanced Spanish: Native - mother tongue Italian: Advanced Portuguese: Medium German: Intermediate Basic French KEY ACHIEVEMENTS High-impact projects Migration: 4M migrant persons regularized (UNHCR/IOM) + $1.5M collected (Quito Process, 2020-2024) UNICEF: $5.3M in donations (2020) + 50+ multimedia reports Culture: FILBo (1.5M attendees). FNPI Event (200K assistants). Communications management and content editing of the Oscar nominee movie Embrace of the Serpent. 14 books published on their own account and for institutions or organizations. +2K articles published in media such as Forbes, Wall Street Journal, People (USA), La Nación (Argentina), El Comercio (Peru); La Razón, Cinco Días (Spain), El Espectador, El Tiempo, El Heraldo (Colombia), Financial Times Deutschland (Germany) and magazines such as SoHo, Semana, Diners,, Urbana, DC. 5 exhibitions as a photographer in Bogotá and Paris. 2008-2015 • Produced 50+ multimedia reports EN/SP on the situation of children in Latin America and Panama, which allowed the collection of $5.3M in donations 2020. • I coordinated the regional R4V campaign and made global impact notes in emergency situations such as hurricanes and migration in Darien. LEADERSHIP IN TRANSMEDIA NARRATIVES
• Editor-in-chief and general editor

  el tiempo/ el heraldo/ semana magazine/ cinco dias and la razon (spain)/ plan b/ revista urbana

  1998.01-2014.01

  (16 years)

  for +16 years in charge of newspapers and magazines. Achievements: o El Tiempo newspaper. Multimedia, web and TV editor with +1,100,000 readers, redesign and creator of new sections. IAPA Award for Best Chronicle of the Americas, among others. o Diners Magazine. Procolombia National Journalism Award, best Tourism Chronicle. o Semana Magazine. Cultural editor and special reports. +700,000 weekly readers. o El Heraldo, National Journalism Award Deutsche Welle-Semana for environmental approach. o Director of Plan B magazine. • Ministry of Culture of Colombia (2009 – 2010). I coordinated and was web editor in charge of the editorial content of the national media. +1,100 simultaneous national concerts. Speechwriter of the Minister of Culture. References Osmar Alza (IOM Coordinator) / Tel: (507) 6298-7017 / oalza@iom.int Dora González (Ambassador) / Tel: (57) 323 5849721 / dora.gonzalez@cancilleria.gov.co Carolina Da Costa (Executiveofficer UNICEF) / Tel: (34) 654 33 82 60 / cadacosta@unicef.org Julio Croci (IOM Regional) / Tel: (507) 6312-5642 / jcroci@iom.int Gustavo Nieto Roa (moviedirector) Tel: (+57) 310 2549958 / gustavo@centauro.com

Educational experience

• Breda University of Applied Sciences.

  Media innovation

  2017.10-2018.07

  (10 months)

  Media innovation specialist
• Universidad de la Sabana

  Journalism and social communications

  1994.07-1999.06

  (5 years)

  Expert in journalism

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