Marielena Ferrer
Marielena Ferrer is a socially engaged visual artist and the executive director of Humanamente, a diversity and inclusion consulting organization. Art is a growing component of Marielena’s larger desire to assist people in becoming aware of themselves and their environment as fully as possible.
Originally studying architecture at Central University of Venezuela, Marielena later earned a certificate of distinction in “Leadership and Empowerment” from Spain’s Polytechnic University of Valencia and a diploma in “Gender Leadership” through the EQUAL Transnational Cooperation Community Initiative of the European Social Fund. She also earned a University Expert Diploma in “Mental Health, Cultural Processes and Psychological Interventions with Immigrants, Minorities and the Socially Excluded” from the University of Barcelona.
“For those of us living far from our places of origin, creating colorful expressions of art helps preserve our personal and cultural identities, while maintaining a bond to the lives we knew,” she says. “It lets us explore, decide, declare, express, experience and question ideas about our identities over time.”