The Power of the Invisible: A Memoir of Solidarity, Humanity, and Resilience [Paperback]

Paula Moreno's work inspires and exemplifies how far women of color have come and how far they still have to go in capturing the equality, recognition, and opportunities they deserve in our world today.

InThe Power of the Invisible, Paula Moreno tells us how a twenty-eight-year-old Black woman rose to become Colombia’s Minister of Culture, an unprecedented event in the history of the country, and how in doing so she achieved two milestones: she became the youngest person to ever hold that position, and she became the first Afro-Colombian woman ever to hold any ministerial office in the Colombian government. In addition to her appointment and time in the ministry, Moreno recounts her family origins and professional career.Paula Morenois celebrated as Colombia’s youngest and first Black woman minister and as the youngest and first Afro-Latina member of the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees and the former chairwoman of the Program Committee. As the president of Corporación Manos Visibles, she directs one of Latin America’s foremost NGOs championing racial equality. Her work also extends globally as she pioneers initiatives across eleven countries with significant Afro-descendant populations."Paula Moreno Zapata offers a meditation on leadership rooted in humility, lineage, resilience and responsibility, challenging dominant paradigms that equate power with domination or spectacle. In a global context marked by polarized identity politics and contested forms of representation, her memoir provides a sober, reflective and necessary intervention… The Power of the Invisiblespeaks not only to Colombia and Latin America, but to a wider global audience concerned with who gets to lead, how, and at what cost.”“Paula Moreno is one of the luminous forces in the world guiding us toward a more inclusive future in which those on the outer edges of society—including, historically, young Afro-ClÃ0