Rebeca Almonacid Leal

Hometown

São Paulo, Brazil

Education

Accounting at University of Brasilia 

Interests

Latin American Economic Development, International Humanitarian Assistance,  NGOs management and sustainability, Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership 

Experience

Being from the highly segregated city of São Paulo, Brazil, I've had to reckon with the social inequalities that permeate Brazilian society from a young age. 

While I had the opportunity to address some of inequality issues through my senior thesis, which investigated the benefits of facilitating access to financial literacy, it was outside of college that I was most able to do so. 

Throughout my life, I have been involved in various social projects with NGOs (e.g., ADRA, Maranatha Volunteers International, and S.O.S Amazonia) in the Amazon, Peru, Zambia, Kenya, and India. 

These experiences awakened in me a passion for humanitarian assistance and the desire to deepen my understanding about  socio-economic development.