Cecilia de la Paz

Founder and General Director of NGO Educate Uruguay; committed to providing access to quality education for rural schools, designing, implementing and researching transformative learning programs in more than 450 schools all over the country. Worked for the Uruguayan government leading nationwide programs, Discovery Kids in the United States, EdTech enterprises in Ecuador, the World Bank, IDB Bank, the IDRC of Canada. Founded two ICT for education startups and directed media houses for clients such as UNICEF, Discovery Networks and Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership. Steering committee at Karanga Global Alliance, mentee at Vital Voices and collaborator at Big Change.