Basic info

First Name	Marcela
Last Name	Escovar
User name	marcescovar
Country	Colombia
Gender	Female
Full name	Marcela Escovar Aparicio
Working languages	English, Spanish (Español)

Bio

About

I am Marcela Escovar, I come from Colombia, and I studied literature. During my life, I have been focused on social project management through design and innovation, coordination, and implementation throughout my professional life. As a social entrepreneur, I have developed a proactive attitude, and innovative and analytical perspective to assume challenges. I am known for my enthusiasm, discipline, creativity, social connection, and organization. It motivates me to work in teams where I have the opportunity to learn, grow and support with my experience and knowledge on social projects with high impact. My passion for learning and curiosity allows me to connect my studies in Literature through my experience in the design and implementation of social projects, in public and private areas.

Education

University of Glasgow, Scotland, Class of 2017

MEd Children’s Literature and Literacies with merit

Dissertation focused on reader response in interactive printed picture books.

Los Andes University, Colombia, Class of 2007

BA Literature

Dissertation with honors focused on contextualizing Julio Cortazar and Julio Silva Picturebook in their artistic legacy. Published as “El color y la pluma: una invitación para jugar en Silvalandia.”

Significant achievements

Colfuturo Scholarship Beneficiary 2016 – 2017: I got a grant to study my master’s degree at the University of Glasgow: MEd Children´s Literature and Literacies.

Speaker at the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at Cambridge’s conference ‘Synergy and Contradiction: How Picturebooks and Picture Books Work’, at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, in conjunction with Homerton College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, from the 6th to the 8th of September, 2018.

Picnic at the Mambo lecture: Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, IRSCL2021.

Picnic de Palabras at the Mambo, (Modern Art Museum at Bogota) case study that is part of the publication: Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks, Evelyn Arizpe, 2023.

Business

Business	Looking for business partners, Looking for investment opportunities
Current employment	Freelance editor
Expertise	Areas of Proficiency: Partnerships & alliances, Strategic thinking, Storytelling, Philanthropy, Communication skills, Creativity, Project Management, Problem-solving, Team Management
Motivation for social impact creation	In my work in the Colombian public sector, I realized the importance of supporting long-term social projects to achieve significant transformations inside local communities using an approach to recognize the local leaders by working and developing solutions together. I’ve created cross-institutional relationships and strengthened my network to ensure the projects’ success. I recognized the need to listen to others and understand what motivates them to achieve the proposed goals through agile processes that helped determine if they were long-term ventures or not.
Contributions to the SBC community	I can help the SBC community by designing strategies to support the development of social projects to solve local needs with global impact. In addition, I can share my network to improve and scale the solutions you are proposing, exploring and testing.
Sustainable Development Goals	GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being, GOAL 4: Quality Education, GOAL 10: Reduced Inequality

Research

Looking for collaborators

Research interests

My research is focused on how we can close the gaps around reading and writing in rural areas by supporting children and families to improve their lives by giving them picture books to inspire their own stories.

Selected publications

Más allá de pasar la página, revista PEONZA: Otras infancias, 2018, pp 79-87.

Lecture at the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at Cambridge’s conference ‘Synergy and Contradiction: How Picturebooks and Picture Books Work’, at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, in conjunction with Homerton College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, from the 6th to the 8th of September, 2018.

Picnic at the Mambo lecture: IRSCL2021 – Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature.

Picnic de Palabras at the Mambo, (Modern Art Museum at Bogota) case study that is part of the publication: Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks, Evelyn Arizpe, 2023.

Competition: look for projects	Active but not looking for new projects
Competition: look for members	Lab leader