Maria Elena Campisteguy

Maria Elena passionately believes that effective, lasting solutions for the world’s most challenging issues come from the authentic engagement, collective creation, and powerful voices of communities most impacted.

Her career has been centered on advancing equity and creating transformational change in organizations and communities.

She excels at designing strategies and approaches that bring people from diverse backgrounds, sovereign nations and competing political beliefs together to discover values they hold in common, inspire a shared vision and develop actionable plans. Her work leads to changing systems, policies and practices; expanding programmatic reach; building unexpected relationships; deepening cultural understanding; and increasing capacity.