Venezuelan psychologist with good experience in family counselling, cultural exchange programmes and in the development of childhood and family support networks. She has coordinated innovative projects in the free use of time, international youngsters' exchanges with emphasis in cultural adaptation. She has participated in studies based on gender, effectiveness of children's programmes, and has been involved in the curricular design for teaching sciences and mathematics in primary education.

Evaluation of a wide variety of programmes (childhood, family, education, gender) at national and international level with organizations like the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference, Child Foundation, Bernard van Leer Foundation, NOVIB, CISFEM, CENAMEC, Book Bank, AFS Intercultural Programs and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. She has also been university professor at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, Metropolitan University, University Institute AVEPANE, where she has taught Learning Psychology, Educational Integrative Seminar and Developmental Psychology respectively.

Co-founder of the Fundación Apoyo al Niño y la Familia (AFIN), where she got involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of the Project Solidarity School Networks (REDES), based on the coordination of multi-sector and community efforts in order to incorporate excluded children in the formal education system. She presently works at Plan Netherlands as Senior Programme Officer in the Latin America Desk.

Publications

•  Young children, communities and learning: Venezuela - A model for the public management of childhood programmes built upon local strengths and diversities. Chapter 3. J. Leonardo Yánez and Arelys Moreno. JAI Book Edited by Tricia Davis, London , UK , 2001.

•  Article based on Redes Escolares de Solidaridad (REDES), published by the Youth Foundation: Education for Engagement in Venezuela: How the REDES Program Builds Youth Participation in One Community , 1999.

•  Article "Redes Escolares de Solidaridad - REDES". Informative Magazine from FUNDAICI, Transformando , Año 1, 1996.

•  Learning Module: Desarrollo Moral y Orientación Familiar (Moral Development and Family Counselling), ACES Project, sponsored by UNICEF. Editorial Tinta, Papel y Vida, 1995.

•  AFS Venezuela : Handbook for Hosting Schools, 1993.

•  Article Learning by Doing in Venezuela , published in Walk Together, Talk Together, AF S Intercultural Programs , NY. USA . April 1992.

•  Handbook for Host Families: Usted y su Estudiante (Your Student and You), AFS Venezuela, internal publication, 1989.

•  Manual for the processing of Referential Information, Banco del Libro - OAS, 1987.