Family Coordinator
Latin America and the Caribbean
Maricarmen is our family coordinator for Mexico. She has been with Perkins since 2010, and is now working as our family coordinator. As a trained historian from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), she has been collaborating on a seminar since 2013. She is the mother of a young 32 year old woman with deafblindness, which has led her to the largest adventure of her life. Her experiences have allowed her to connect with the realities of being a human, a mother, and supporter of families who experience deafblindness and multiple disabilities firsthand. Throughout her life she has met teachers and friends in diverse settings with whom she has created long-lasting bonds.