Florencia Varela

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ABOUT FLORENCIA VARELA

Florencia\'s work lies at the intersection of strategic engagement, social impact, programming, and philanthropy. Braiding together almost two decades of experience in program work, fundraising, project management, and education, Florencia approaches her all initiatives with values of care, genuine relationship building, and a vision for a better currently leads Peace is Loud\'s learning and filmmaker outreach initiatives, mainly through the organization\'s signature program Collective Lens. She previously has worked on impact campaigns for films such as To the End, On the Divide, Knock Down the House, Women War & Peace II, The Bleeding Edge, and The Hunting Ground. In her current role, Florencia seeks to center filmmakers who are currently underrepresented and/or underrecognized in the industry transnationally, and to support values-forward shifts in the industry. Florencia has extensive experience in building social impact campaigns and intentional programs that reach their intended target audiences, and center care and community-building. Previous to Peace is Loud, Florencia honed her teaching, partnerships, programming, outreach, and development and fundraising skills over more than a decade at organizations such as PEN America, the Rubin Museum of Art, the Poetry Society of America, and Nitehawk Cinema, where she launched the cinema’s partnerships and sponsorships program. Florencia is also on the board of The Future of Film is Female and the advisory board for the Global Impact Producers Alliance, is a published poet, and was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina.