Berkley Center

Emily Fintel is the regional representative for Strategic Initiatives at Fundación AVINA in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining AVINA in 2002, Fintel worked in grant and financial management for Inter-American Dialogue, a center for policy analysis on U.S.-Latin American relations, and in institutional development at INCAE, the leading Latin American business school. She has also conducted research at the Inter-American Foundation on the use of collective remittances for economic development purposes. Fintel earned a master's degree in international affairs from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor's degree with honors in hotel administration from Cornell University. Originally from the United States, Fintel has lived abroad for the greater part of the last 10 years.