Mireya Vargas

Biography

Mireya is currently a Fellow at The Distinguished Career Institute (DCI) at Stanford University (2019-2020). She has been an Ashoka Fellow since 1998, is the founder of AC Centro Lyra and has been working more recently with a focus on Well-being initiatives in Latin America since 1990. Actually, she is a writer of her personal memoir.

She has been doing psychological and sociological research using Jungian psychoanalytic studies and the personal well-being approach applied to social issues. She has been working with Entrepreneurs strengthening their emotional education and inner well-being, and that of their workers and communities. A comprehensive approach to the psychological is seen as a support in the acquisition of a sense of life, wellness, emotional connection and community. She has numerous academic publications in Spanish and English about Poverty, Social change, Personal Well-being and Sustainable Development and more recently she is publishing her Memoir.