Mariana Vergara

Mariana is the Executive Director of BRIDGE® Model of Transformational Learning. http://www.bridgeamericaparentcenter.org/bridge.htm She is a Global Core Member of World Dignity University (WDU) as part of a new cultural movement that envisages contributing to a vision of a future where the people of this world are indeed capable of cooperating for a better future. She is leading the WDU Amazon Rain Forest Initiative that aims to co-create sustainability in the Amazon with the Kichwa community http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF0lBoMOpRM Founder of FDC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykxMcxrkj3A&feature;=feedwll&list;=WL BRIDGE® also was implemented at Morris Hills high school making this high school to have in their 2010 NJ Report Card the highest scores for Latino students in NJ. She is a Doctoral Candidate at the AEGIS program at Teachers College, Columbia University.