Arts Innovator: Mauricio Díaz Calderón, Colombia

Mauricio Díaz, a 26-year-old Colombian journalist currently studying for a Masters in cultural studies at the Universidad de los Andes, has transformed his passion for literature into a means of achieving social change. Fundación Fahrenheit 451, the brainchild of Díaz and a group of college students with a common passion for literature, started in 2007 as a nonprofit organization based in Bogotá that uses literature to promote the social inclusion of underserved populations. But the founders soon realized that they needed a literary vehicle of their own....

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