FACILITATORS
ANDRÉS
CASAS
Founder and organizer of Neuropaz. He applies Brain and Behavioral Sciences, Social Change Communications, and tech innovations to design context-sensitive interventions aimed at: prosocial transit, promoting positive organizational dynamics, and improving the user experience and citizen engagement.
He holds a Master's in Behavioral and Decision Sciences (UPenn), an M.A. in philosophy, and a B.A. in Political Science. He is a dual doctoral researcher in Neuroscience and Social Psychology, with an emphasis on Mediation and Conflict Resolution. He has been the Principal Investigator of the World Values ​​Survey for Colombia since 2010.
He uses a collaborative approach known as translational research applied to complex territorial and organizational dynamics. This approach combines experimental methods, deliberative decision-making, and community participation using the arts and entertainment. His consulting and research activities have been developed in Latin America, the United States, Africa, and the Middle East. +Info
JOSHUA
MARTIN
He is an international expert in people-centered innovation for governments and multilateral institutions using conditional transfer programs, financial inclusion, moral finance, and sports to promote social change. He has a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Harvard University, and is an economist from New York University.
He is the Co-Founder and Principal at Venn Advisors, also serves as a Behavioral science Advisor at Save the Children, and is the Lead Expert Global Hub for Behavioral Insights in Preventing and Countering Extremism. He previously directed Beyond Conflict and Ideas42. +Info
PAULA
RAMÍREZ
Co-director of RESPIRA en Colombia and EMERGE, two organizations that combine peacebuilding with mental health practices to restore human resilience in the recovery process from an autoimmune illness. She has developed a method that combines mindful awareness, interoceptive practices, expressive arts, and somatic perspectives.
Paula bridges diversity and culture with contemporary crisis work and trauma integration. She holds an MA in Conflict Transformation, has a BA in Anthropology, is an MBSR trainer from the University of San Diego in California, a Trauma Sensitive Yoga facilitator through the Trauma Center in Boston, a Somatic Experiencing practitioner and a Psychotherapist under expanded states of consciousness from Naropa University. +info
ANA
MARÍA
ARAOS
She has been working in the field of cultural and behavioral change for over a decade. As the founder and director of Sensata UX Research, she leads the application of technology and innovation to revolutionize the measurement and analysis of the factors that explain culture and human behavior. Her background as a philosopher allows her to merge data analysis with a deep understanding of human complexity to design creative, effective, and well-founded social change strategies.
