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Felipe Cala Buendía
Associate director for advocacy , Latin America Program at Open Society Foundations
Colombia

Felipe Cala is associate director for advocacy at the Latin America Program at Open Society Foundations. Prior to this, he was a senior program officer managing a portfolio to strengthen the human rights movement in the region, and another to support media and storytelling initiatives on human rights. He has been engaged in advocacy, communications, and policy work at various civil society organizations and the Colombian government. His research has been published by several academic journals, and by the United Nations, for which he co-authored a report on youth engagement and human rights. He is the author of Cultural Producers and Social Change in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Felipe has a law degree from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), an M.Phil. in cultural studies from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), and a Ph.D. in Latin American studies from Princeton University (United States).