Team

Diego Ontaneda Benavides is the co-founder and CEO of Latin American Leadership Academy (LALA). His passion for social and economic development took him from McKinsey & Company in San Francisco to African Leadership Academy (ALA) in Johannesburg. He was inspired by the vast potential he saw in empowering the region’s most promising youth to solve…

Debora is passionate about art and education. As an educator, she is interested in artistic practice as a potentially transformative learning experience and in creating compassionate communities. In recent years, Debora has been working as a social-emotional learning facilitator and has been designing learning experiences for several projects and organizations as Senac, Humana Educação, and…

David’s passion is helping students develop the essential dispositions, skills, habits, and values that support lifelong learning and wellness. His quest to understand education has taken him on an 18-year teaching journey. He has taught STEAM, philosophy, history, theater, SEL, and trained teachers, and consulted for schools across Brazil. He’s proud to serve on the…

Caro was always driven by her passion for communication, culture, and education. From a very young age, she had the opportunity to be part of multicultural environments that showed her the importance of connection as a source for sustainable change. Caro studied a Bachelor in Journalism and Mass Media from the University of San Francisco…