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Urban Leadership Awardee
Victor Santiago Pineda
Urban Leadership Awardee
Victor Santiago Pineda
President, World ENABLED
Adjunct Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley
Executive Director, Center for Independent Living
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Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda of Berkeley, California is President of the World Enabled, an educational non-profit organization that promotes the rights and dignities of persons with disabilities, and the Pineda Foundation, positions he has held since founding the organizations in 2003.
In 2012, he served as the Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Fellow for Academic Diversity and as an Adjunct Professor in City and Regional Planning at the University of California (UC), Berkeley.
Dr. Pineda was a Senior Research Fellow at the World Institute on Disability in 2011. As a policy consultant, he has advised international agencies such as the World Bank and United Nations, as well as state and federal governments, in the development and implementation of programs and policies that include people with disabilities.
