Meet the ITEN team

Patricia Moraes

Patricia Moraes joined the ITEN Team as the Grants & Events Coordinator in March 2019. In her current role, Patricia is responsible for planning and executing ITEN's Annual Seminar and managing the grants awarded by ITEN in the forms of Cooperation Exchanges and Seed Funds. Patricia's passion for education stems from her own experiences with the transformative power of education in a person's life and society in general. She holds a BA in Political Science and an MBA in Global Management.

Nathalia Khayat

Nathalia Khayat has been part of the ITEN team since 2013 and with the OAS since 2011. She is an international development professional, with more than 15 years of work in education and communications in public and the private sectors across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. She has extensive experience in forging technical cooperation among ministries of education of Latin American and the Caribbean. Nathalia is passionate about the power of knowledge sharing to bridge educational gaps. She holds a BA in Communications and a MSc in Development Studies.

Andrea Aramayo

Andrea Aramayo joined the ITEN Team in February 2022 from La Paz, Bolivia. Prior to joining ITEN, Andrea worked at the OAS Scholarships division. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Creation and Development and is passionate about international education due to her study-abroad experiences in the United States, Spain, and Chile. Andrea is also interested in the creation of innovative solutions and hosts a podcast about impact entrepreneurship in Bolivia.

Carmen del Pilar Suárez Rodríguez

Pilar is responsible for supporting early childhood through secondary teachers in their physics instruction and leadership. She is also a professor and researcher at the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi. Her main research focus is the exploration of the social appropriation of science for the promotion of the development of communities of high economic marginalization.

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