Know about the campaign team: Short Biographies



Jorge’s bio
Jorge H. Urrea Quintero studied at the Institución Educativa Ignacio Botero Vallejo in El Retiro where he graduated from High School. He was the student who got the best results in the ICFES test. After High School, He applied at The University of Antioquia and The Nacional University. He was accepted to study at The Nacional University where he is in his eighth semester of Control Engineering. At The Nacional University, He has participated in some research groups and is an assistant student in a research project. He plans to continue participating in research projects and later wants to earn a master's degree.

Carolina’s bio
Carolina Carrascal Grisales finished her high school in the “Liceo Jesus - Maria” in Medellin, Colombia. After that, she studied market research on the SENA, and a had an internship at “TQ Laboratorios” in the marketing department. Since then, she worked a couple of months at the “Corporación Etica”, developing and public tenders of education and environmental for the Bello municipality in Antioquia. In 2007, she began studying industrial engineering at the National University of Colombia at Medellin and plans to get her professional title in 2012. All these years she has been working in sporting events at the University to pay for her expenses. Finishes her career, she wants to travel to London to study English and then get a master's degree in engineering.

Ginna’s bio
Ginna Rosero Cabrera is student of oil engineering in the National University of Colombia, Campus Medellin. When she finished her secondary education at the Colegio Ciudad de Pasto (CCP), she studied a Technical in Construction of Structures in Bamboo at the SENA (Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje) where also became part of volleyball team placed second in the zonales. She also became part of the volleyball team at her high school where obtained several awards. Ginna always has chosen the branch of mathematics, construction and similar topics. Although the profile of an petroleum engineer isn't very consistent with his personality, she thinks that for get solutions, is most useful share her opinion and listen the opinions to others and not to impose her point of view without considering others. The patience and quietness at the right times is her virtue. For Ginna is difficult to write but is easy to perform calculations.


Yennyfer Alvarez López studied at the Institución Lorenza Villegas de Santos, where she finished high school studies. In this moment she is studying in the National University Political Sciences and she is in ninth semester.  When she graduated from the school face the challenge  of choosing what career to study.  This was a difficult decision because he liked the law, sociology and political science. The only thing that was clear was his love for the humanities. She finally decided to study political science because from this we can understand the power and also from the social relations are organized.
During her stay in college, she has been monitor of geography course and student representative of her faculty. This is due to love for student activity. She is a passionate person and enjoys working in politics.
His Future plans include studying “Planeación urbano- regional” masters and continuing learning about social research because she is interested also in this topic.


Deisy's bio
Deisy Paola Barrera Meneses studied at Educational Institution Simon Bolivar, in Garzón- Huila. She graduated with specialization in mathematics in 2006. She studied one semester at Antioquia University and then in 2008 she passed the test at the National University of Colombia. Right now, she is in seven semester of petroleum engineering. In her department, she leads different kinds of humanitarian projects such as soup kitchens and religious youth groups. She is known for being friendly and organized. In a future she wants to apply in a scholarship for to study at the Houston University, when many researches about oil and gas industry are developed. Finally, she wants to make her mark at the University.


Mariana’s bio
When has finished his undergraduate degree, she plans to study a master's degree in finance or production, and long term, she wants to start their own business.
Mariana Pineda Giraldo studied in the “Colegio La Asunción” of  Copacabana, graduated like Academic Bachiller in the year 2004. She joined the "Universidad Nacional" in 2007, to study Industrial Engineering, now it is in his ninth semester. In 2005 he worked at a medical center called "Urgencias del Norte" in the municipality of Bello until 2008. Since 2009 he worked as a customer service adviser at the telecommunications company UNE, until 2010, during which time he worked and studied simultaneously in order to pay your study and personal needs.