Alicia Avilés
Alicia Avilés is a Costa Rican educator and activist. Avilés worked for 12 years as an elementary school teacher in Nicaragua. After settling in , she helped create an arts organization, Sistema Integral de Formación Artística para la Inclusión Social (SIFAIS). Avilés is the community director of SIFAIS.
Biography[]
Avilés was born in Managua.[1] She was educated at Lumen Christi and at Loyola High School.[1] She went on to become an elementary school teacher for 12 years.[1] Avilés left Nicaragua in the 1990s when she was persecuted for her involvement in a teachers' strike in that country.[2] She was also seeking a better economic opportunity in Costa Rica.[1] Avilés started working as a maid.[3]
Avilés has become the civic leader of the neighborhood in, San José.[2] She is the community director of the Integrated System of Art Education for Social Inclusion (Sistema Integral de Formación Artística para la Inclusión Social SIFAIS).[1] Avilés helped create this organization along with Maris Stella Fernández in 2011.[4] Also in 2011, Avilés helped create a youth orchestra in the neighborhood.[5][3] This orchestra now plays throughout Costa Rica.[5] SIFAIS also provides classes in various other skills.[4]
In 2017, Avilés was honored in The Tico Times list of "Women of the Year."[6]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e "Meet Alicia Avilés, the perseverant immigrant leader of La Carpio's cultural growth". The Tico Times Costa Rica. 9 January 2017. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Semple, Kirk (2018-09-24). "La llegada masiva de nicaragüenses pone a prueba a Costa Rica". The New York Times (in Spanish). ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
- ^ a b "Rebuilding the community of La Carpio through cultural education". The Tico Times Costa Rica. 6 January 2017. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Fernandez Gonzalez, Ana Beatriz (10 December 2014). "La Carpio: Una espiral virtuosa de luz". Semanario Universidad (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-01-05.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Hares, Sophie (2018-05-28). "Youth orchestra changes the tune for Costa Rica shantytown". Reuters. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Tico Times Women of the Year: leaders who inspired us in 2017". The Tico Times Costa Rica. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
External links[]
- An interview with Alicia Avilés (2017 video in Spanish)
- People from Managua
- People from San José, Costa Rica
- Nicaraguan educators
- Costa Rican activists
- Costa Rican women activists
- Living people