Cristina Burelli is a social entrepreneur, founder and executive director of V5Initiative, a non-profit that advises and connects civil society organizations in the Americas that focus on universal values, family, freedom and democracy, social entrepreneurship and the environment. Previously, she was the executive director of Alliance for the Family. Before moving to the US in 2000, she was living in her native country, Venezuela, where she was a trustee of the Alberto Vollmer Foundation, The British School, and El Museo de los Niños, one of the largest and most admired children’s museums in Latin America. She matriculated at Queens’ College, Cambridge in 1981 and read for a BA in social anthropology.
