Ana was born in 1988 in MedellÃn, Colombia. Having grown up in that period of Colombia’s history, she realized not everyone had equal opportunities. Wishing to change that, she became a volunteer at the age of nine. In 2004, Ana’s cousin Alejandro was born with brain paralysis with over 92% damage. Her desire to enable him and more disabled people to have a more independent life led to her becoming a Product Design Engineer at EAFIT University.  Academics alone didn’t satisfy Ana’s drive for purpose, so in 2009 she began volunteering for AIESEC, a leadership development organisation that would change her life. After having obtained bachelor’s degree in engineering in 2012, she began working full-time for AIESEC. In 2013, she was elected President of AIESEC in Colombia 2013-2014, leading an organisation with +3000 members. During her tenure, AIESEC brought over 1200 international volunteers, teachers and interns to Colombia to work on projects that support growth and development of Colombian youth and organisations, and sent over 1500 Colombians abroad to do the same. Due to this legacy AIESEC in Colombia was recognised globally and won numerous awards, including the ING Global Achievement Award and the IAVE award for Best Youth Volunteer Organisation in the country during 2013.  Currently, Ana is the global President of AIESEC International with headquarters in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is the first Latin-American woman to ever hold this position in the history of AIESEC and the final responsible to lead the global strategy, the operations and the leadership body of the organization in +124 countries and territories and with +70.000...
Alejandra Campoverdi is Managing Editor of #EmergingUS at the Los Angeles Times, a digital magazine founded by award-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas that explores the emerging American identity and lives at the intersection of race, immigration, and identity in a multicultural America. Prior to joining the Times, Alejandra served as Senior Advisor for Innovation and Communications Strategy for Univision Network News and was a part of the team that launched Fusion. From 2009-12, Alejandra worked as a White House aide to President Obama, most recently as White House Deputy Director of Hispanic Media, where she developed and implemented the White House’s multimedia communications strategy in relation to the U.S. Latino community. Prior to that, Alejandra worked in the White House Chief of Staff’s office as Special Assistant to Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Mona Sutphen. Previously, Alejandra worked on The California Endowment’s Agricultural Worker Health Initiative, which focused on improving the health and living conditions of California’s agricultural workers. Alejandra holds a Master’s of Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and graduated cum laude from the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. She sits on the Executive Advisory Board of the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy and is a member of the Pacific Council on International...
Juan David Aristizabal investigates and reports on the Latin American innovators that are transforming the region. He is a journalist and social activist. In January 2013, Forbes magazine listed him on its 30 Under 30 list as a leader in connecting Colombians to socially-minded initiatives and engaging the broader community in their development. His team won an MTV Latin America Millennial Award for their Buena Nota Foundation, a digital platform founded in 2006 that showcases social entrepreneurship projects. He is co-founder of Buena Nota and currently serves as president of the Ideas for a Better Country Foundation. In 2012, Juan David was listed among the 100 Leaders of Colombian Society in the country’s magazine Gerente. In August 2013 both the Semana magazine and Leadership and Democracy Foundation ranked him among the 20 individuals who are revolutionizing Colombia. He is currently obtaining his masters’ in a dual-degree program for journalism and international relations at Columbia...
Boris is a media executive currently serving as SVP and Chief Strategy Officer for FUSION, a Joint Venture between Univision Communications Inc. and the Disney/ABC Television Group. He leads company-wide corporate strategy, business development, monetization, and partnerships with a focus on growing the reach and impact of FUSION’s content offerings. Prior to joining FUSION, he most recently served as VP and GM of La Fabrica UCI, Univision’s in-house digital studio. While at Univision, he also worked in partnership with Penske Media to launch Variety Latino; Panoramica, the award-winning documentary series in partnership with Participant Media; and Alma Extrema, the first ever adventure-sports and lifestyle digital destination for bilingual Latinos, powered by Red Bull Media House. Boris also served as VP of Strategy and New Initiatives for Univision News, where he managed operations and strategic initiatives focused on the growth and profitability of News’ content offerings across platforms. For his work in media, he’s been included in Variety’s Hollywood’s New Leaders: TV Executives (2013) and Univision’s High Potential List (2012). Before entering media, Boris served as the Director of Finance and Investments for Prodigy International, a global real estate investment company, where he oversaw the company’s financial operations. He also co-founded Human Dimensions International, an organizational development consulting company based in Colombia. Boris holds an advanced management degree in media and entertainment from IESE Business School and an advanced project management degree from Stanford University. He earned a masters degree in international business from Florida International University and a BBA from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia. Boris is part of the 2013 Georgetown Leadership Seminar, and a member of...
Jose Zamora joined Univision in June 2012; he currently holds the position of vice president of strategic communications for Univision News. In that role, he is responsible for ensuring that the content produced by Univision’s news division has the widest possible reach and impact. Zamora also manages the integration of media innovations into the newsroom and helps develop partnerships with foundations, nonprofits and other media and technology organizations that allow Univision News to further inform, engage and empower its audience. Prior to joining Univision, Zamora managed Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge, an initiative to spur media innovation across the world. Zamora also helped manage Knight Foundation’s journalism and media innovation portfolio, where he contributed to the development of over 100 grants to advance media innovation. Zamora’s work included pioneering new types of grants and funding mechanisms such as program related investments, as well as creating intellectual property language and open-source software guidelines for new experimental grant-making. He is a journalist, columnist and a former news executive with elPeriódico in Guatemala. He has a law degree from Universidad Francisco MarroquÃn, a specialization in media law from Oxford’s Media Law Advocates Programme, and a master’s degree in public affairs from the University of Texas at...
