03/04/2024
🗓️ As we excitedly count down the days to PROPA’s first Areito, we are grateful for the opportunity to welcome Kasike Múkaro Borrero to Orlando and for the leadership, guidance and partnership of the United Confederation of Taino People in helping make this dream, multi-city series a reality.
🌟 Roberto Mukaro Borrero (he/him) has a distinguished and diverse background in policy & program development, the arts, and human rights advocacy, including a specialization on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. He retains over 25 years of experience actively engaging the United Nations system in thematic areas such as Sustainable Development and Climate Change, among others. He has served on the staff of the International Indian Treaty Council and the American Museum of Natural History, as well as an independent contracting consultant for UNESCO, UNDP, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, PBS, and other notable institutions. A published writer, an accomplished artist, and musician, Borrero is a citizen of the Guainía Taíno Tribe of Borikén and the Virgin Islands. In 2012, he was traditionally sanctioned a kasike (chief) of the Guainía Taíno Tribe. His educational background is in communications and cultural studies. In 2013, Dr. Borrero was awarded an honorary Doctorate Degree, Philosophy in Humanities, from Kayiwa International University, Kampala, Uganda.
🌎 Learn more about his global advocacy for Indigenous Peoples. https://www.mukaro.net
📚 Buy his book Gu’ahia Taíno We Speak Taíno. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/book/1144278054;jsessionid=E4E0CD48F9D5DCD4D87F7818A7A009C5.prodny_store01-atgap14?ean=9798988820000&fbclid=IwAR3I84rOA_bUHUT7zXGG1RZb0o6un8-gUbCJDievz96HVzPh4-cUCG7IQ4g
👍🏽 Follow and like United Confederation of Taíno People. https://www.instagram.com/taino_confederation?igsh=aHVtODdmOTB5emMz
