——— Profile
Who I am
A Chilean psychologist and policy architect. A researcher-practitioner: neither a pure academic nor a pure manager.
The arc
Over twenty years, my work did not simply grow in scale — it grew in difficulty. It climbed from a clinical center I co-founded to a school-based program with nationwide reach to national policy that must integrate rather than address a single topic. Along the way, it moved toward problems no one agrees are problems at all, such as stigma toward sexual and gender diversity — and toward problems with no model to follow, such as evaluating a university’s third mission. Each step was not a new topic but a harder kind of problem.
What the arc is for
It is not a career summary; it is the working capital of the method. A complex problem is multisectoral and multilevel by definition — health, education, economics, and territory each hold it differently, and each level, from the clinic to the ministry to peer-reviewed research, knows it in a different way. A response only works if it makes sense to each in its own language. Having stood in most of those rooms — and having published from within them — makes translation possible.