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Dr. Rojas serves as Director of Innovation at the Peace and Collaborative Development Network, one of the world’s largest online communities connecting social change makers to multiply their collective impact. As director of Global Partnerships at Women Thrive Worldwide, she created a worldwide network and led training and consultation to increase the advocacy capacity of women’s NGOs and CBOs in Central America and West Africa. Dr. Rojas consulted on gender, conflict and development issues with many international organizations including the IIS, OAS, USAID, UNIFEM and earned her Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, she has over two decades of experience working with civil society organizations in the Global South, including the peace movement in her home country.
“Dr. Rojas’ personal drive to create a better world for others was what attracted us to her inspiring list of achievements,” said Tammy Lynn Gilmore, SXSW Interactive’s Nonprofit Evangelist. “The Dewey Winburne Community Service Awards committee was very impressed by Dr. Rojas’ entire body of work, especially her work with women-focused non-governmental and community-based organizations. Her work for peace within her home country [Colombia] was also something we considered very important.”