Ana Mojica

Ana Maria Mojica is a Colombian leader working at the intersection of migration, education, and human rights. In a time of growing global displacement, authoritarianism, and threats to democracy, she has focused her efforts on protecting the rights and dignity of Venezuelan migrants and refugee children in Colombia. As CEO and co-founder of Fundación M&M Formando Líderes, she leads a grassroots response to the migration crisis by providing displaced children with access to quality education, food, and psychosocial care. Her work humanizes the migration process and addresses root causes of forced displacement through long-term investment in leadership, equity, and opportunity. Since founding the organization eight years ago with her family, she has led efforts that have empowered hundreds of children and teenagers, especially those forcibly displaced by Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis. Under her leadership, beneficiaries of Fundación M&M have gone on to represent Colombia in prestigious international platforms such as the U.S. Youth Ambassadors Program, the National Youth Talent Award from the Presidency of Colombia, the One Young World Summit, the United Nations Anti-Drug Forum in Vienna, Concordia Summit in New York and United World Colleges. Ana Maria has forged transformative alliances to strengthen educational access in the region. M&M partnered with the Organization of American States to establish the only POETA Center in eastern Colombia, promoting leadership and computer literacy. She also led partnerships with Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management to teach business and finance, and with Universidad EAN to deliver programming and robotics classes to M&M’s students. Ana Maria herself is a Chevening Scholar, a CrossCulture Program Fellow (CCP, 2021) sponsored by the German government, a Global Competitiveness Leadership Fellow (GCL, 2022) at Georgetown University, and a Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI, 2024) fellow of the U.S. Department of State. In 2024, she also represented Colombia and her organization at the UN Constructive Dialogue on the Smuggling of Migrants in Vienna. She holds a Bachelor's in International Business from EAN University and a Master's in Educational Leadership and Management from the University of Nottingham. Deeply committed to human rights and educational equity, Ana Maria has devoted her career to designing and implementing strategies that increase access to quality education as a path to peace, democracy, and sustainable development.