Clemencia Vargas

Founder, Vive Bailando

Biography

Clemencia Vargas was born in Bogota, Colombia. She received a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Babson College. Upon graduation she worked as a senior consultant in Deloitte and Touche, in Financial Advisory services in the LATAM region.

Currently, she is the Founder and Executive Director of Vive Bailando, a social entrepreneurship initiative that has developed an innovative model of intervention in Colombia using dance as a pedagogic tool to obtain a sustained and positive impact on behaviors, attitudes, leadership, structure of values, family integration and the ability to empower agents of change in society. Clemencia, is a profesional dancer and coreographer for over 18 years that has had the opportunity to dance with Backstreet boys, Black eyed epeas, opened up concerts for Beyonce and N'sync, performed in private sessions at Madonnas house and the MTV Latin Video Music Awards; amongnst others.

Expertise

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