Qualification: Inspire-Uplift, heal through nature and creativity

Summary: My vision is – Inspire-Raise, heal through nature and creativity.
I'm an artist. I have always been an artist since the day I was born, although I have not always known it. It wasn't until I left school, when I was free from the limits and constraints of the educational system, that I discovered the artist in me. My art is an extension of me. It extends to all areas of my life. I have a passion for life, love and care for the earth. Everything I create has a reason - sometimes that reason is just to honor the creativity within me.

Professional in Audiovisual Media with an emphasis in cinema from the Grancolombiano Polytechnic University of Bogotá. In 2009 he made his first fiction short film in 16 mm called "Abajo esta la ciudad", which allowed him to start in the field of directing, a job he has carried out since then, making several plot and documentary short films, including This "Gueê" his second experience in the making of ethnographic documentary. Production that has received various national and international awards.

Degree in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Caldas. He is currently the professional in charge of the Office of Human Rights, Victims and Peace of the Governor's Office of Caldas. Humanist and indigenous leader of the Embera Chamí ethnic group from the Department of Caldas. He reached the House of Representatives for the first time in 2010 for the Special Indigenous Circumscription. His dedication to community work and conviction to defend social justice, the rights of peoples and the claim to land in the search for peace and final reconciliation among Colombians, have allowed him to actively articulate in the dynamics of the Colombian agrarian movement. His fight against corruption, poverty and unemployment have led him to be a recognized leader for his participation in the formation and consolidation of social organizational processes and he has promoted initiatives before the Community and the European Parliament that seek to facilitate the peace process. In colombia.

Qualification: Intercultural University Maloca Project

Summary: The project consolidates the processes of identity construction and interculturality in the public universities of Manizales, through the joint collaborative work of their respective intercultural and intercultural indigenous chairs, for the implementation of the realization and operation of an intercultural maloca , as a place for the co-creation of the social fabric and the construction of peace, strengthened from the ancestral knowledge of indigenous students to other students and to the community in general.

Professor Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto. Member of the Leonardo / ISAST Governing Board.

Introduction: “The value of knowledge transfer in Abya Yala”

Industrial Designer, with a master's degree in Arts and New Media from the KHM Germany school. PhD student in Media Archeology with Professor Siegfried Zielinski in Berlin. He currently lives in Santa Rosa de Cabal, directing the Minkalab rural laboratory. The Minkalab project is a rural platform, dedicated to the inter and transcultural exchange of knowledge, which seeks the good living of all beings. Minkalab comes from “minga,” which is collaborative work, and “Lab,” from laboratory. With a farm in Santa Rosa de Cabal, Minkalab has held different events, workshops and cultural activities, integrating peasant, indigenous and youth groups from different parts of the world.