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  • International Programs, Mexico

Carlos Orizaba

Education Coordinator

Country

Mexico

Region

Latin America and the Caribbean

About

Originally from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Carlos is an educator with graduate studies in intellectual disability. He has been a teacher, a school principal, and an advisor on education policies to different state governments and universities in Mexico. Carlos has participated in dozens of seminars, workshops, and congresses. He won the award Bécalos for his participation on an education panel organized by the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. He has taken classes on multiple disabilities and deafblindness at the Perkins International Academy. Carlos advised the Mexican Federal Ministry of Education (SEP) on the publication of four training guides for work for people with disabilities. He has worked as a consultant for Perkins since 2021 helping in the implementation of Project Pixan, our ten-year strategy in Mexico, in the Bajío region.