Gaby Arenas de Meneses

Biography

I am passionate about promoting peaceful coexistence, well-being, and social entrepreneurship through the visual arts and innovation in education.

I am co-founder of the TAAP Foundation, Art Team Lead at RoundGlass Learning, and former CEO of the Aid Live Foundation. I have co-created and directed programs and organizations that impact more than 4,500,000 beneficiaries in vulnerable communities in Latin America and the world.

My goal is to promote peace, generating social development projects and social enterprises that increase the well-being of communities—using collaboration, creativity, and social innovation as tools to develop critical thinking and understanding to drive systemic change.

I am an Ashoka Fellow, Rotary Peace Fellow, Perennial Fellow, OC Fellow, and co-founder of the Weaving Lab, Catalyst 2030, and Colombia Cuida Colombia. I support the Collective Change Lab, Tendrel, and the Ecosystem Network of the Wellbeing Project in Latam, all of them collaborative projects