Ángela Maria Báez-Silva

Ángela Maria Báez-Silva is a Colombian women and a mom of a seven year old girl. The core of her professional experience has been facilitating cultural transformation processes in different roles: coordinator, director, trainer, facilitator, mediator, learner, evaluator and researcher. She has worked with communities and organizations from different sectors in Colombia, always from systems, gender sensitive, narrative and complexity approaches. Her most relevant experiences have been focused on women-gender-identity; peace building; local “development”; dialogue; collective knowledge construction; participation; horizontal governance; and, education. She has worked with different organizations such as ADAPT Peacebuilding and TerritoriA, and as a professor in some universities in Colombia. “Creo en los abordajes participativos, dialógicos y sistémicos, enfocados en relaciones éticas que cultivan el reconocimiento, la autonomía y la confianza entre las personas que habitamos multiversos distintos e igualmente válidos.”