Meet the Board.
Friends since 2004, Collaborators since 2013, Co-Directors since 2019
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How it started.The idea for Emergent Horizons started in 2013 when Meghan came to Colombia to visit Leah and Sebastián.
Sebastián had been doing fieldwork for his dissertation in Soacha (just south of Bogotá, Colombia) at the Fundación Colombia Nuevos Horizontes. He was learning how the organization's radical strategy of hospitality allowed families--displaced by the country's civil war--to remake their lives in the aftermath of violence. Meghan led a small printmaking workshop with the residents of "the foundation" and on the long bus ride home the three of them hatched a scheme to have her return to paint those living in the shelter. Six months later, Meghan came back, lived two blocks from New Horizons, and painted 12 gorgeous portraits of foundation residents in the course of ten days. The portraits were then exhibited in a gallery in Bogotá, where patrons and displaced families could come together and connect with each other through art. Inspired by the possibilities of creativity, care and home-building projects among vulnerable populations, and of celebrating small, homegrown efforts to affirm our shared connections, the seeds of Emergent Horizons were planted. |
Sebastian Ramirez Hernandez
PhD Princeton University, Anthropology |
Meghan Keane
BFA Brooklyn College, Parsons Art, Design, Critical Literacy 
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Leah Golubchick
MSEd Bank Street College of Education, Museum Education |
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Welcome new board member
Rachel Cara BA Hunter College Non-profit Education Programming |
How direct donations work.
At Emergent Horizons, we know that people already working with vulnerable folks are best positioned to make decisions about how to distribute resources to make the most lasting and powerful impact.
When you donate to Emergent Horizons, you are committing to helping refugees directly. As an all-volunteer organization, the vast majority of your donation does straight to refugee partners doing amazing work in their community, as well as our local work of outreach and education surrounding refugee issues. Currently we have one partner organization: Fundación Colombia Nuevos Horizontes.
"The Foundation" as it is affectionately called by residents, is run by Marino Rivera, who we have been supporting and collaborating with since 2013.
They have a proven track record for over a decade as a registered non-profit in Colombia.
The foundation provides meals, shelter, social services, and emotional support to displaced Venezuelan families in Colombia, in addition to internally displaced Colombian folks, who come to them for support. The foundation is known for helping people heal and launch into the next phase of life, rooted in a community of supportive, understanding people and a place providing essential resources.
We encourage monthly donations over the long term. Why? Our focus is on building sustainable support because having donors that vulnerable folks can count on creates the greatest impact.
We also educate the public via social media and are building out our support channels for vulnerable populations here in the U.S.
Questions? We're happy to answer. Please reach out.
When you donate to Emergent Horizons, you are committing to helping refugees directly. As an all-volunteer organization, the vast majority of your donation does straight to refugee partners doing amazing work in their community, as well as our local work of outreach and education surrounding refugee issues. Currently we have one partner organization: Fundación Colombia Nuevos Horizontes.
"The Foundation" as it is affectionately called by residents, is run by Marino Rivera, who we have been supporting and collaborating with since 2013.
They have a proven track record for over a decade as a registered non-profit in Colombia.
The foundation provides meals, shelter, social services, and emotional support to displaced Venezuelan families in Colombia, in addition to internally displaced Colombian folks, who come to them for support. The foundation is known for helping people heal and launch into the next phase of life, rooted in a community of supportive, understanding people and a place providing essential resources.
We encourage monthly donations over the long term. Why? Our focus is on building sustainable support because having donors that vulnerable folks can count on creates the greatest impact.
We also educate the public via social media and are building out our support channels for vulnerable populations here in the U.S.
Questions? We're happy to answer. Please reach out.
