For the last 16 years, Clarita has worked at Fundación Escuela Nueva (FEN), a leading nonprofit working to improve the lives of children through quality education that empowers them as individuals to fully develop their human potential and achieve outstanding outcomes.
As Chief Operating Officer, she ensures strategic alignment of programs and leads strategies to strengthen general management as well as innovation and knowledge generation. Clarita also provides strategic and managerial oversight to FEN´s project management office, which centralizes project design, planning, execution and evaluation.
Clarita holds a BA in Business from Los Andes University in Colombia and an MA in International Education from New York University´s Steinhardt School of Education, Culture and Human Development. She also pursued a specialization program in Nonprofit Management at NYU´s Wagner School of Public Policy and participated in INSEAD´s Social Entrepreneurship program.
