| Puerto Rico
Field of actions as a social entrepreneur
Public Policy Research
Mental Health, Family and Community
Governance and Citizen Participation
Poverty, Social Justice and Community Economic Development
Private Sector and Development
Development Education and Communication
Prevention of Social Violence
Your personal work and expectations for the future
Alfredo A. Carrasquillo-Ramírez was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico
on February 10, 1970. Psychoanalyst and educator, he was recently
appointed Managing Officer of the Center for Public Policy Research
at the Rafael Hernández Colón Gubernatorial Library Foundation
in San Juan.
A practicing psychoanalyst and consultant to the Puerto Rico Community
Foundation, he lectures on a part-time basis at the Humanities
Department of the Sacred Heart University in San Juan. From 1995
to 1999 he served as Vice-President and Trustee of the Corporation
for the Support of Educational and Community Programs (CAPEDCOM)-
a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is to
support the formation of productive human beings capable of transforming
their life conditions.
Carrasquillo-Ramírez's experience as a social entrepeneur has
been rich and varied. He has worked as a consultant in human development
and psychological support for a school drop-out prevention program;
as coordinator of a literacy program for single mothers; a workshop
facilitator for the training of youth counselors for the prevention
of the use and abuse of alcohol; and as family advisor in a project
for the support of families in marginalized communities for the
prevention of domestic violence. He coordinated a community development
and support program for families in the southern zone of his country
and directed a project for participatory education for the renovation
of the curriculum of a youth penitentiary. He also has been in
charge of the training of government functionaries as promoters
of community development.
He has facilitated community dialogues and forums for citizen
participation in Puerto Rico, the United States, South Africa
and Jamaica, and coordinated an effort in Puerto Rico to train
community leaders, school teachers, and university professors
in the participatory methodology for citizen deliberation.
A frequent traveler who has visited more than 15 countries, Carrasquillo-Ramírez
served, in the summer of 1988 and 1990, as a catholic missioner
in Bánica, a rural town on the border between the Dominican Republic
and Haiti.
Your personal definition of Social Entrepreneur
Someone who believes in social change and trusts human beings
recognizing their potential for imagining and constructing better
communities. Someone who works hand in hand with people to contribute
to their development and well being but who is quite clear about
the fact that he cannot do things for people or on their behalf
but instead should help people to become autonomous and free...
to become social entrepeneurs on their own.
The useful suggestion that CFF member would give to all potential
& active social entrepreneurs
"Keep this question in mind all the time: is my insertion in the
contexts I work at, generating dependency or creating the conditions
for people to take charge of their own future?"
Where to find more about the CFF member and other related links
· Contact email address: alcarr@coqui.net
·Mailing address: PO Box 9020659, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902-0659
· Center for Public Policy Research of the Rafael Hernández Colón
Gubernatorial Library Foundation: www.fbrhc.edu.pr
· An essay on Clinical Psychanalysis entitled "La infantilización
del otro" was publised on volume 8 of Acheronta, a psychoanalytic
journal on the web: www.psiconet.com/acheronta/index.html
· His books El nacionalismo cultural de Luis Muñoz Marín, Depresión,
depresiones and Adicciones, could be ordered through the site
of a Puerto Rican bookstore: www.tertulia.com
· The Charles F. Kettering Foundation: www.kettering.org
· The Freudian School of Québec: www3.sympatico.ca/gifric
· The Puerto Rico Community Foundation: www.fcpr.org
· The Institute for Democracy in South Africa: www.idasa.org.za
· The University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan: www.sagrado.edu
· Academy for Educational Development: www.aed.org
· Notre Dame Catholic High School: www.ccnd.org
· Northfield Mount Hermon School: www.nmh.northfield.ma.us
· University of Puerto Rico: www.upr.edu
· New School for Social Research: www.newschool.edu
He has published more than 25 academic and political essays in
national and international journals and newspapers, and has worked
for both local radio stations and newspapers. He is the author
of an issue book entitled Taking charge of our economic future (1998) and co-author of the following books: Depresión, depresiones (1998), El nacionalismo cultural de Luis Muñoz Marín (1998), Adicciones (1999) and Comunidad y diálogo: Rupturas que construyen un Puerto Rico de
esperanza (forthcoming, 1999). He is currently finishing a book on Puerto
Rican contemporary political discourse analysis entitled Los enemigos del orden: El criminal como significante flotante
y la legitimación del poder político en el Puerto Rico contemporáneo (forthcoming, 2000). |
