The team
The people who run the week.
A standing team with executive directors in Mexico, and an advisory board of working professionals — in the rooms with the students, not behind a desk.
Rooftop session
Midtown Manhattan
Maria Clara García
Founder & CEO
An international youth education specialist with more than 35 years of experience as a professor, mentor and educational consultant. Maria Clara is a distinguished professor at Nueva Granada School in Bogotá and Marymount School in Barranquilla, Colombia, where she developed programs that give students the tools and the environment to reach their full potential beyond the classroom.
In Barranquilla she founded BAMUN, a student-run Model United Nations for students across Colombia, which grew into COLMUN, a national Model UN whose delegations competed internationally in Washington DC and New York. Her students have gone on to become members of Congress, executives at multinational companies, lawyers, innovators and social reformers.
She currently serves as Secretary General of the United Nations Association of Colombia, UNACOLOMBIA — and as the founder of Visionarium she continues to build strategies for student success, youth empowerment and leadership.
The standing team.
Programs, admissions, logistics, communications and finance — the people who put the week together and travel it with the students.
Marianna Maldonado
Head of Programs
Sofia Restrepo
Visionarium Coordinator
Ana Sofía Garza
Executive Director, Mexico
Alejandro Guevara
Executive Director, Mexico
Vanessa Jimeno
Director of Social Impact
Maria Caro Martin Leyes
Director of Signature Experiences
Marianna Carrillo
Innovation & Strategy Coordinator
Jessica de la Espriella
Senior Public Relations & Business Development Advisor
Andres Duarte
Financial Coach and Advisor
Moses Balian
People Strategist
Pablo Samur
Recruiter and Human Resources
Dani Klaric
Producer and Photographer
Paula Albarran
Creative Director of Fashion and Arts
Alejandro Klaric
Creative Director of Fashion and Arts
Sebastian Acosta
Head of Communications & PR
Jorge Andrés Dávila
Head of Logistics
Pablo Villalon
Head of Admissions
Graciela Bitar Hank
Visionarium Coordinator
Julian Montalvo
Head of Legal & Financial Department
The advisory board.
Working professionals — law, finance, education, media — who lend the program their fields and their rooms.
Fernando de la Espriella
Advisory Board Member
Steph Choremi
Advisory Board Member
Laura García Caballero
Advisory Board Member
Marcela Restrepo
Advisory Board Member
Camila Toro
Advisory Board Member
Sandra Quintero
Advisory Board Member
Rody Douzoglou
Advisory Board Member
Geeta Raj
Advisory Board Member
Guy Smith
Advisory Board Member
Tomas Uribe
Advisory Board Member
Maritza MacDonald
Advisory Board Member
Jorge Setoain
Advisory Board Member
Gabriel Riviera Barraza
Advisory Board Member
Roger Larach
Advisory Board Member
To confirm Every card opens the written profile carried over from the original site — except Jessica de la Espriella, whose original entry only repeated her title. Several profiles read as self-introductions from past editions; review them for tone and currency before launch.
Meet them in New York.
The team travels the week with the students — registration for the next edition is open.