Hola! I’m Lorena, a cultural manager, partnership builder and social entrepreneur working across borders. My work connects arts and culture with social and environmental questions, bringing people, ideas and organisations together through meaningful engagement and collective action.
I’m passionate about creating spaces where people can come together, pause, connect and thrive, and where collaboration can open possibilities for more just and sustainable ways of living.
Born and raised in Ecuador’s Andean highlands, I have lived in North America and the Middle East and am now based in Copenhagen.
My interdisciplinary projects and collaborations include:
Creating and facilitating creative learning spaces with children and young people in vulnerable situations in Ecuador’s Chocó Andino, through bambúProjekt.
Developing creative advocacy initiatives with the international anti-torture movement.
Curating educational programmes and exhibitions exploring migration, human rights and the role of the arts in social change.
Developing educational workshops with young people living in refugee camps in the Middle East.
Coordinating community programmes and building educational, cultural and sporting partnerships at HANGAR1 in Berlin.
Developing partnerships and securing spaces and funding for Professional Women of Colour Denmark.
Founding TUYO, connecting Ecuadorian coffee and cacao producers with Nordic markets through trade, cultural exchange and a commitment to environmental sustainability.
Organisations I have collaborated with include the Mandela Foundation, CAMP – Center for Art on Migration Politics, SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst, the Red Cross, Ecuador’s Ministry of Education, Norwegian People’s Aid, Women Refugee Route, Crossing Borders and the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT).
My interdisciplinary approach draws on studies in Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science at the University of Hamburg and the University of Copenhagen, alongside studies in Visual Communications at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. I hold a master’s degree in Development and International Relations from Aalborg University, Copenhagen, and completed postgraduate studies in Curatorial Studies at Universität der Künste Berlin in 2022.
I am fluent in Spanish, English and German, with advanced Danish, intermediate comprehension of Italian and Portuguese, and basic spoken and written French and Arabic.
SKILLS
Strategic Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement
Arts & Cultural Management
Project & Programme Management
Community Engagement & Facilitation
Strategic & Creative Communications
Cross-Cultural Collaboration & Cultural Diplomacy
Research & Cultural Analysis
Curation & Educational Programming
“Every cultural transformation, is first an individual transformation.”