Juan Jorge Cuesta is Founder & CEO of TIMBALÉ, a cultural organization that promotes the empowerment and transformation of communities in Colombia, integrating people, organizations and territories to build a social fabric through dance and music. To date, TIMBALÉ has impacted more than 500 children and young people from vulnerable communities, with programs where personal, social and artistic training converge; and the collective creation to break the social stereotypes that the violence of which they have been victims has generated, creating new referents and social leaders with an awareness of change, adaptation and conflict resolution using art as a tool for integral development.

 

Juan Jorge, a musician graduated from EAFIT UNIVERSITY, has been a panelist and speaker at international events such as THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE WORLD FORUM and the SKOLL WORLD FORUM, among others, promoting creative industries as a driver of impact and social transformation; He is the creator and director of the Art and Social Leadership Forum, which will take place on November 25 in Medellín with the support of the EAFIT University; he is part of the 2021 cohort of ACUMEN FELLOWS, which cultivates agents of social change committed to the fight against inequality and social injustice; and participant of the Global Leaders Program where he obtained first place as an entrepreneurship challenge.

 

Currently, in addition to being the general and artistic director of Timbalé, he supports the strategic transformation of corporate social responsibility programs  so that they contribute to the construction of the social fabric in their different impact communities using art and sports as tools for building the country.