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Gonzalo Duarte

Gonzalo Duarte
Gonzala Duarte is the President of Companeros Inc. in Toronto, Ontario. He is also a candidate in Canada’s inaugural Master’s of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership program.

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How I Got to the Summit: A Personal Reflection

Posted by Gonzalo Duarte on October 20, 2014

My mother was a professor so you’d think her unequivocal advice would have been to go to university after high school, but instead she directed me toward Canada World Youth, a federally funded international exchange program designed to get young Canadians thinking about cross-cultural learning, community service, and issues of local and global concern. This was long before gap years became popular and I was the only one from my graduating class doing such a thing.

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No Chicken Soup for the Soul: A Personal Transformation

Posted by Gonzalo Duarte on October 20, 2014

In the 1990s I was terribly ideological and saw the world in containers of political, economic, and social good and bad and fought to eradicate the bad and establish the good. I had three young children at the time and now like to console myself about that period by thinking I was sleep-deprived. Or maybe I was just oxygen-deprived.

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