I am very grateful for having the opportunity to participate at Cumbre Vital Voices Buenos Aires.

I met very interesting women, among them designers, lawyers, social entrepreneurs, women that work at multinational companies, etc.

I listened to different points of views about social responsibility, gender issues and more importantly challenges women face all over the world in the workplace, in economics, and at home. Listening to these women and learning how they endured, overcame and faced their professional and personal challenges, I could relate to most of them despite our different backgrounds.

I had the opportunity to meet some of these amazing women more deeply and they moved and inspired me profoundly. The amazing Karin Shipman, that was generous enough to let me interview her for a few minutes and candidly answered all my questions.

Her life is inspiring and beautiful not because she is as a beautiful person inside and outside (that she is) but because she faced great challenges and overcame them all, she was brave and very successful too. And her courage and temple inspired me to write about her. So I am writing a piece about her that may be published soon.

She is amazing doing what she loves, her work… but more amazingly is her story and her willingness to share what she learned through her life.

She travels the world and told me about her experiences mentoring African and Guatemalan women, I just loved the experience of meeting her, I just wish I can transmit what she inspired me during those minutes we talked.

Karin is in her sixties, and many women in Latin America (where I live and I come from) at that age feel they are useless and that their lives are almost over, Karin gives them all an example of a rich a beautiful life. And that is one of the main reasons I want to write about her. She is a great example, a great role model and I want to bring her home through my writing to set an example, to inspire…

I met some women from Latin America (Venezuela and Haití) that have been working with Vital Voices for years and were generous and very eager to share their experiences from their countries…

I loved President Bachelet speech, I appreciated that she is a great leader, very charismatic and empathic. The opportunity to meet her made me reflect on women and politics and the moral obligation that we have, as women, to look for access to positions of power to make things better.

I loved Dina Powell and her commitment to the 10,000 women initiative. She was really accessible, inspiring, too. I would love to get to know her better.

The sessions were all amazing. Everything was well planned, neat, it was great experience.

I got it, it is a great network. The whole event was really inspiring and intense.

We had the opportunity to work on the basis of what may be our strategy for the Central America Chapter. In that sense the event was very useful and practical. We brought home so much to start working harder and better in our own countries.

I look forward to the next Vital Voices event!!!