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Karla Ruiz Cofiño, digital strategist & social media specialist, entrepreneur, speaker, social activist & woman advocate. Dedicated to help leaders connect with the world and use their influence to improve it! Founder of the program Digital Awareness, Co-Founder of the digital agency MilknCookies, Founding Curator of Global Shapers Guatemala and Vital Voices Fellow. Karla has been invited to be part of the #VV100 2016, a group of the most engaged and visionary women leaders of the Vital Voices Network Worldwide; Invited on behalf of President Obama to be Speaker at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2016 at Stanford University; chosen as 1 of the 5 women around the world to receive the Vital Voices Global Leadership Award 2015 ; Recognized as 1 of the 10 Innovators in Latin America 2014 by the Inter-American Development Bank; Chosen as 1 of the 20 women around the world to participate in the Global Women’s mentoring program 2014 organized by Fortune Most Powerful Women, U.S. State Department and Vital Voices. Chosen as 1 of the 60 specialist of the World Summit Award Jury in 2014, Recognized as Visionary of the year 2014 by the leading Guatemalan brand Saúl E. Mendez; Awarded as Outstanding Professor of the year 2014 by Universidad del Itsmo Guatemala; Declared Women of the year 2013 by Look Magazine; invited as speaker at TEDxIncae 2016 in Costa Rica and TEDx Guatemala in 2013. Her company MilknCookies was awarded as one of the Top 5 leaders in E-Entertainment in 2009 and was declared 1 of the 8 WSIS + 10 Global Champions in 2011 by the World Summit Award, both are awards for building knowledge societies for peace and sustainable development. Karla is a Fellow of the 11th class of the Central America Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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