{"id":917,"date":"2011-04-26T17:49:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2011-06-05T08:53:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T15:53:50","slug":"ideo-org-2012-fellows-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"IDEO.org 2012 Fellows Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Phase One Items:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Short Essay on Experience with Other Cultures (500 words):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>My name is Arturo and I am a Designer. I was born in a middle-class family in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Since childhood, my Mother taught me to be of service to others, to do so with respect and humility. <\/em><em>Not even three generations before me, our family lived in extreme poverty. As my parents moved from small towns to Guadalajara, this provided my two sisters and I a unique ground to have access to better education and eventual professional opportunities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>My childhood was enriched with the life lessons of my extended family in the country side, and the city life I grew up in. I don\u2019t really consider their life, apart from me, or to be \u201coutside of [my] own\u201d, they define me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>If there is a word that defines me, that word is Curiosity. I have always liked to ask, ask often and then ask some more. <\/em><em>It was curiosity that led me to learn English, then French and even German. This Curiosity was fed, lovingly, by my parents and coped, intensely, by my sisters. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Because of curiosity, I was able to experience cultures outside of my own at the age of 17, when I started my University education in the United States of America. <\/em><em>In the following 11 years, I expanded such cultural experiences in a study abroad to Germany where I also visited over a dozen other countries in Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>At 25, I lived 110 days in a cruise ship that was, in essence, a floating university that traveled through Greece, Portugal, Panama, Ecuador, French Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia and The People\u2019s Republic of China. <\/em><em>In each country we engaged in academic programs, service programs and in-country projects with international organizations. <\/em><em>In my particular case, as part of the Intercultural Communications group, I participated in Ecuador in a joint UNDP &amp; UNICEF program. We explored for the period of a week the existing vaccination program and the human rights task force for the rights of children in Ecuador.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>You can see what we did here: \u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"Soy Ecuador video on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/soyecuador\/ \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/soyecuador\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>In Panama, I witnessed first-hand the effects of climate change, deforestation and natural resource management in the cloud forests. I opened my eyes to how the Embera, the indigenous population in Panama, had been relocated for such resources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The voyage aboard the MV Oceanic II, among 200+ young minds from 47 countries and speaking 25+ languages helped me define my passion: <strong>Connecting People<\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I<\/em><em>n almost three decades, I have not for once forgotten where I come from and where my family comes from.\u00a0 It is an exercise of constant awareness and of alignment of my core values and beliefs. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>It is because of my passion and my curiosity that I believe in people and not for one second can we achieve human happiness without one another.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open IDEO Profile &amp; Participation:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_926\" style=\"width: 449px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/openideo.com\/profiles\/30405596\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-926\" class=\"size-full wp-image-926\" title=\"open ideo logo\" src=\"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-27-at-1.17.26-PM.jpg\" alt=\"open ideo logo\" width=\"439\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-27-at-1.17.26-PM.jpg 915w, https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-27-at-1.17.26-PM-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on this image to open my openIDEO profile page.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phase Two Items:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Letter of Recommendation:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ref_pelayo_ideoorg11_page1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-922\" title=\"ref_pelayo_ideoorg11_page1\" src=\"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ref_pelayo_ideoorg11_page1.jpg\" alt=\"Page 1 of Recommendation Letter \" width=\"1275\" height=\"1651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ref_pelayo_ideoorg11_page1.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ref_pelayo_ideoorg11_page1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ref_pelayo_ideoorg11_page1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ref_pelayo_ideoorg11_page1-973x1260.jpg 973w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ref_pelayo_ideoorg11_page2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-923\" src=\"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ref_pelayo_ideoorg11_page2.jpg\" alt=\"Recommendation Letter Page 2\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ref_pelayo_ideoorg11_page2.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ref_pelayo_ideoorg11_page2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ref_pelayo_ideoorg11_page2-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Short Video Story:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read my essay, recommendation letter and view a video for my application and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-2","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturopelayo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}