Dr. Otazo Hofmeister is
currently committed to taking an active role in non-profit, NGO,
organizations. Her local focus is on empowering immigrant women in Texas
to start their own businesses. For Houston-based, 100 year-old,
Neighborhood Centers, Karen is working on an online publication in
Spanish as well as their capital campaign. She is on the boards of Vital
Voices Global Partnership and Best Partners and the advisory board of
the Tahirih Justice Center. As a member of WCD, Women Corporate
Directors, she attended their “Boot Camp.” She is a fellow of SOL,
Society for Organizational Learning, at MIT.
Karen has been honored to work with Vital Voices Global Partnership: In
2007 she worked with dynamic Russian women leaders, presented at the
Americas Summit in Miami and went to Panama with a delegation to discuss
leadership for women and the establishment of a Vital Voices Chapter.
Dr Karen Otazo (seated) is flanked
by Taniesha Burke and Javette Nixon of the Social and Economic
Alliance for Development (SEAD). Dr Otazo will be the presenter
at a forum hosted by SEAD, titled 'Invest in solutions;
Leadership and Responsibility', today at Mona School of Business
at the University of the West Indies. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff
Photographer Friday | August 14, 2009
1-Dr. Otazo with Aloun Ndombet-assamba
at the focus group for Women and Power - Jamaica August 14, 2009
2-Vital Voices of the Americas: Women
as a Bridge to a More Prosperous Future
Oct. 5-8 2008 Buenos
Aires, Argentina
3-Vital Voices of the Americas:
Women
as a Bridge to a More Prosperous Future
Oct. 5-8 2008 Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Read Dr Otazo's
speech in English and
Spanish
4-The 18th ASA Congress
Association of Secretaries
and
Administrative Professionals in Asia Pacific
November 3-7, 2007
5-Vital Voices Global Partnership summit in Kiev, Ukraine
October 14 - 18, 2007
6-Open World Program, Vital Voices Global
Partnership
Russia Delegation, Women as Political Leaders July 14 – 22,
2007
Read Endorsement
7-Vital Voices Global Partnership Visit to Panama May 4, 2007
8-Judith McHale and
Vivian Torrijos sign the Memorandum
of Understanding while
Dr. Karen Otazo looks on.
Vital Voices Global Partnership Visit to Panama May 4, 2007
9-“It was a pleasure meeting you in one our Vital Voices program
where you delivered such an inspirational speech on Leadership.
I was very thrilled to read your book as well. Thank you for
giving us this in knowledge." Aashmi from
Nepal - Fortune Women Leaders
Program 2007
10-Fortune Magazine/State Department/Vital
Voices
Washington D.C.
11-Vital Voices Annual Leadership Summit for
Latin American
and the Caribbean at the University of Miami June 3-8
2007
12-Vital Voices Annual Leadership Summit for
Latin American
and the Caribbean at the University
of Miami June 3-8
2007
Dr Karen Otazo (seated) is flanked
by Taniesha Burke and Javette Nixon of the Social and Economic
Alliance for Development (SEAD). Dr Otazo will be the presenter
at a forum hosted by SEAD, titled 'Invest in solutions;
Leadership and Responsibility', today at Mona School of Business
at the University of the West Indies. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff
Photographer Friday | August 14, 2009
