Founder and CEO Alicia Korten is an author, speaker, facilitator and trainer. She is fluent in Spanish and was a Fulbright Scholar to Costa Rica where she wrote her first book Ajuste Estructural en Costa Rica (Structural Adjustment in Costa Rica).She has led strategic planning processes, conducted workshops and written publications for the Ford Foundation, Levi Strauss & Co., the Inter-American Foundation, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Smithsonian Associates Program, the Aspen Institute and many others.
Before launching ReNual, Alicia worked with Indigenous Peoples in Panama where
she was instrumental in helping them gain rights to participate in projects
that affect them. While working with Indigenous Peoples in Panama, she was
instrumental in helping local organizations throughout the country gain rights
to participate in projects that affect their constituents. For example, she
helped the Embera, Wounaan and Kuna Native Peoples* establish an international
precedent by becoming negotiators in a major loan by the Inter-American
Development Bank, an intergovernmental agency that historically only negotiates
with governments. The bank showcased the program as representing a new era of
civil participation. The initiative informed the writing of Panama’s
Environmental Law, which included important stipulations with respect to
citizen’s rights.
*Indigenous organizations spearheading this effort included the Embera-Wounaan General Congress and the Madungandi General Congress.
For more on Alicia Korten go to: www.creatingthe21stcentury.com/alicia
“Alicia Korten embodies a commitment to values, and the importance of values in people’s lives.”
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