Maria is a Colombian senior architect working in the private sector with relevant experience in housing design in the cities of Barranquilla and Bogotá. Her interests for traveling and urban planning and design led her to pursue a training course in Urban Transport in Lund Sweden in 2009 and to pursue a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from Chongqing University in China from 2010 to 2012. Maria is a passionate traveler, eager to learn about different cultures around the world. She is interested in public space design and how it can improve people’s quality of life.