Closing Ceremony

Kilder Fuentes is a Peruvian immigrant of humble origins who is a known activist and advocate for immigrants’ rights in the United States for the past 25 years.

Kilder is a business consultant with bachelor's, master's degrees and specializations obtained in well-known colleges and universities in the United States; he has specialized in microfinance, extreme poverty, international marketing, international trade, electoral strategy, and political marketing. Fuentes has solid business, professional and academic experience in the private and public sectors of the United States.

Kilder has worked as a consultant in projects funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United States Development Agency (USAID), Canadian Cooperation Agency (CIDA) and the Ministry of North American SMEs (US SBA) and Walt Disney World (Florida, USA).

Fuentes has professional experience in the Department of Education of the city of New York, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations system (UN-DESA); as well as academic researcher and adjunct professor at the City University of New York (City University of New York, USA) and Long Island University (New York, USA) among others.

In July 2006, for the first time, Fuentes achieved a proclamation of the WHITE HOUSE signed by President George W. Bush in favor of the Peruvian community in the US; and since then he has been President of Peruvian American National Council, an institution that organizes the “CELEBRATION OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF PERU IN WASHINGTON, DC” for 14 years, which includes events at the White House, the US Department of State, the United States Senate and Congress, the US Capitol, Arlington, National Cemetery and the Organization of American States among others prestigious venues in Washington, DC. In 2008 and 2012, Kilder Fuentes actively participated in the Barack Obama campaign as an active member of Latinos for Obama; and in 2016 he was involved with Latinos for Hillary Clinton where he supported the campaign of Hillary Clinton as a candidate for the White House for the Democratic Party.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION Master of Science, Instructional and Educational Technology Touro College & University, New York, NY. 2015

Master of Arts/ECM, Electoral Management and Business Strategy Fordham University, Bronx, New York. 2011

Master of Arts, Political Science and International Relations Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York. 2005

Master of Business Administration, Management and International Business Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York. 2000

Bachelor of Science, International Finance and International Marketing City University of New York, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York. 1994