Operations Manager – Cristina Azuara Fernandez
Pictured left. Cristina Azuara Fernandez is a Computer Systems Engineer graduated from ITESM. She worked on the first national online high school project lead by ITESM in 2004. As an academic coordinator, she trained university students to be online tutors.
Azuara holds a MA in Human Development by the Universidad Iberoamericana (2015). Her master’s dissertation explores how people who engage in personal growth and development processes change their financial behaviors. In 2014 she founded “Neurofinanzas”, a local initiative that aims to help people to heal their relationship with money through financial literacy. She is passionate about collaborative work.
MPL project functions:
Azuara holds a MA in Human Development by the Universidad Iberoamericana (2015). Her master’s dissertation explores how people who engage in personal growth and development processes change their financial behaviors. In 2014 she founded “Neurofinanzas”, a local initiative that aims to help people to heal their relationship with money through financial literacy. She is passionate about collaborative work.
MPL project functions:
- Assistance in identifying high quality local facilitators to deliver programing.
- Recruitment for participants in the facilitated program.
- Assist in the development of reports to the grantor agency, as required.
- Provide ongoing feedback on program quality and effectiveness through periodic measurement of cohort groups.
- Assist in the development of on-line course applications and mobile applications. Conduct needs assessment of Mexican at-risk women and teenage girls to determine what financial skills they lack and what is needed to be independent.
- Co-create a comprehensive curriculum in Spanish to teach women, especially at- risk women, financial literacy and independence.
- Co-create a comprehensive curriculum in Spanish to teach girls (ages 14-18) financial literacy and independence.
- Train facilitators on ground
- Lead and planning all on ground activities
- Design an effective replication strategy to reach 4000 women during the implementation time