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Lourdes Pérez

 

Lourdes Pérez Athanasiadis de Fessenden es periodista panameña, con Maestría en Artes en Producción Cinematográfica de la Universidad de Ohio, USA. Es una “Fulbright Scholar”, ha trabajado en diferentes corporaciones, en WQED-TV (estación de televisión PBS) en Pittsburgh, y como Consultora en Comunicación del Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia, UNICEF.


Lourdes Perez was born in Panama. She graduated from the University of Panama with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Journalism and soon worked as a corporate Communications Director. Shortly thereafter she received a Fulbright Scholarship to Ohio University where she earned a Master’s of Arts in Film Production. During her studies she produced short films about the US invasion of Panama “Freedom’s Dreams” and the indigenous tribe’s protest of treatment during the colonization of the Americas “The Plight of the Guaymi Indians”. Upon graduation

from Ohio University, Lourdes worked in documentary production at WQED-TV (PBS), Pittsburgh, on the internationally aired series “Space Age”. Afterwards, she returned to Panama to continue work on short documentaries. She then served as the Production and Operations Manager for the first multimedia company in the world to translate CD-ROM from English to Spanish and Portuguese. Later in her professional career, she was a communications consultant, “Expert in Mission” for the United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF-Panama. Lourdes moved to the US and further expanded her writing expertise by publishing bi-lingual children’s books “Two Grandmas, Two Worlds”, “How I Celebrate Christmas” and the Spanish memoir “A Traves de Mis Ojos”.

V   ENTRE VISIONES Y SUEÑOS

 Hay instantes en nuestras vidas cuando nos hacemos todas las preguntas que nos impulsan a la creatividad, al conocimiento, a la investigación y a los descubrimientos. Hay otros momentos que sabemos que no podemos contestarnos esas preguntas, y llegamos al convencimiento de que la existencia es muy inmensa para nosotros. La vida y sus misterios van más allá de nuestro alcance y, por ende, nosotros somos sólo pequeñas luminosidades que brillamos por un tiempo, nos apagamos muy temprano… y… ¿volvemos?