Agustina Cavanagh
Agustina Cavanagh has been the Executive Director of Cimientos since 2005, an Argentinian non-profit organization that works to improve educational access, permanence, and quality in the formal educational system for children and youth from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Ms. Cavanagh has worked for four years as Programs Director in Fundación Arte Viva, developing programs that enable school teachers and museum educators to provide cultural experiences and develop critical thinking abilities to students within schools of low cultural access and resources, and develop Cultural Heritage Awareness and its sustainability in the town of San Ignacio in the province of Misiones, which hosts the Jesuit Missions. She also coordinated the first steps of the Museo de Arte Precolombino e Indigena in Montevideo, Uruguay, and during six years worked in the Education Department of the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires, developing communication strategies for the museum’s heritage, guiding tours for the general public and schools, and leading art workshops.
Ms. Cavanagh is a Fulbright alumna and has received funds from Fundación Antorchas to develop her work in art education.
Ms. Cavanagh has a degree in Fine Arts from the Prilidiano Pueyrredon Arts School, the national art school in Buenos Aires, and a Masters in Visual Arts Administration from New York University. Created in 1997, Cimientos aspires to create a future in which every child is guaranteed access to a quality education, and in which children and young people from low-income families have a legitimate and effective possibility to exercise their right to education. Since 1998, it has developed and implemented programs that encourage inclusion, permanence, and quality of school education. Programs provide personalized mentoring, financial support, training, and exchange experiences to all program participants. Cimientos works in alliance with other non-profit organizations, public administration programs, and public schools. From its inception, Cimientos has run according to the following basic fundamental principals:
- Focus on improving formal education
- Professionalism and high-quality program implementation
- Empowerment through personalized participant mentoring
- Transparency and results communication in all its actions
Watch videos of Cimientos work in Argentina.
