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Founder and Director of CLAYSS, the Latin American Center for Service-learning. Between 1997 and 2010, she initiated and coordinated the National Solidarity Schools Programmes of the Argentine Ministry of Education.
She is the author of 11 books and over a hundred articles in Spanish, English, Portuguese and Italian, including La Solidaridad como futuro de la educación [Solidarity as the Future of Education] (with Zelmira May, UNESCO-CLAYSS, 2024) and La solidaridad como pedagogía [Solidarity as Pedagogy] (Ciudad Nueva, 2000). She has been a keynote speaker at universities and organizations on the five continents, and has served as a juror for numerous national and international educational awards.
She is a founding member of the International Association of Researchers on Service-learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) and the Ibero-American Service-Learning Network (REDIBAS, acronym in Spanish). She was a member of the Steering Committee of the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities (2014-2019). In 2019, she was appointed as a member of the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship (ACES). She has been honoured with several international and national awards, including the NYLC Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award (2001) and the Distinguished Career Award from IARSLCE (2023).
She graduated with a degree in History in 1978 from the Instituto Nacional del Profesorado ‘J. V. González’ and has lectured at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), the Universidad Católica Argentina and FLACSO Buenos Aires.
