Meet Maricielo Zamora. At a young age, she committed herself to providing accessible, high-quality education to the most disadvantaged communities in Peru. However, on her journey to becoming an agent of change, she encountered a complex obstacle: being “too young.” Yet, Maricielo discovered that this “disadvantage” is actually her superpower as a young leader. “Youth…
Meet Lavínia Gabrielle – her Amazonian roots, engagement in gender equality and leadership, and interests in politics. “When I stepped foot in the Rio de Janeiro airport for the first time, the impact was already huge. Everyone spoke differently, the slangs were different. I was afraid to answer when people asked me where I was…
Meet Jesús Daniel Valerio Méndez, one of our Venezuelan LALíderes, who learned at LALA to live and thrive with people who are different from each other – whom he now considers family What happens when our passions lead us down uncharted paths in a world that generally dictates that we follow a single path to…
Get to know Jhudy Souza, a young Brazilian leader from LALA who is changing the world through education. ‘’Amid many written poems, I drafted who I want to be. And it is to the classroom I will come back without even leaving it. I won’t stop learning, even opening myself to the new, which is…
“LALA was one of the main pieces in my puzzle when it came to building the education I believe in” Born in Cachoeira, in the Recôncavo da Bahia, Tássia de Matos is a 21-year-old black woman from the Northeast of Brazil who, despite being very young, has already impacted hundreds of lives, serving as an…
Society teaches us to design a path, to plan millimetrically every detail to reach “success”, and to close our eyes to the problems even close to our community – but by opening them, we can know a much greater purpose and redefine our path. Sofía Giraldo, a LALA staff member for a year and a…
“What is the price of dreaming?“ Dreams. Whether big or small, we all have them. The difference sometimes is the willingness we wield and how much we are willing to sacrifice to achieve each of them. Vítor Alves, born in Sergipe, participated in BLB 8. Today at age 20, he is studying Law at Newton…
“Participating in LALA is a two-way street.” – Sabrina Monteiro From São Paulo, Brazil, to Medellin, Colombia. After a BA in Economics at the University of São Paulo (USP) and a Masters in Business Management with an emphasis on marketing at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM), Ticiane Midori Shiki began her career…
“Just like that clay buddha, I believe we all have our inner gold.” – Marcelo Peterlini From the countryside of Goiás, in a small town near the Federal District in Brazil, Laina grew up, discovered herself, and became the source of charisma, wisdom, and inspiration she is today. Laina met LALA when she was still…
“The only factor that determines the success of a society is the percentage of change agents within it.” She loves the word extra, and no, not the personality type. She loves “extra” as that which turns something ordinary into extraordinary. She is Rocio Juscamayta, 51, a self-proclaimed independent and early bird (sometimes…), and who, as…
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