Carlos Centeno Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Working with a team of designers to build public innovation spaces.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Collaborating with the Emerging Talent team to design partnerships within MIT to equip talented learners from migrant, refugee and displaced communities, with computer science and life skills to become leading change agents in their communities.

Republica do Sur is an art collective born out of Big Sur Books in Bogotá, Colombia. We reference South American poetry, literature, and other forms of art to understand what it is to be South American today. Through street art, literature and poetry, we believe we can tell a more accurate story of what is happening in our region and culture than a news media report or a research paper can. Republica do Sur is an initiative by Álvaro Cifuentes and C. Centeno.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Cambridge, Ma, Us

We founded the Governance Innovation Initiative to understand the future of governance. We worked with governments, public innovation labs, our research scientists and leading academics to understand and document what it takes to spark and sustain governance innovation. Specifically around leveraging tech to improve the relationship between public institutions, citizens, and civil society. My team launched the first-ever MIT Governance Innovation Research Fellowship in partnership with some of the more interesting public sector innovation labs in Brazil, Mexico City, Cape Verde, and Kenya.The MIT Governance Lab is a research group and innovation incubator that aims to change practice around government accountability and citizen voice

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Led inception of the Distance Unknown project between the UN and MIT, exploring the data behind the causes of migration from the south, through the Darien Gap.Led inception of the migrant laborforce in Ecuador project.The Civic Data Design Lab works with data to understand it for public good. We seek to develop alternative practices which can make the work we do with data and images richer, smarter, more relevant, and more responsive to the needs and interests of citizens traditionally on the margins of policy development.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Engaged leading voices in science, private and public sectors, as well as non-profit organizations to solve challenges in accessing meaningful work, economic opportunities, and digital inclusion.MIT Solve advances lasting solutions from tech entrepreneurs to address the world’s most pressing problems. Solve is a marketplace for social impact: we find tech entrepreneurs from around the world and broker partnerships across our community to scale their innovative work—driving lasting, transformational change.

Roma, Rm, It

Supported our 14 country offices achieve zero hunger by bringing together our best tools and minds from our regional offices in Latin America, South Africa, and East Africa to Asia. Leading the resilience efforts for the region meant using what's worked elsewhere and linking it to what's worked in Asia in the past to scale up. How did we do it?:We used a data-first approach to understand the root causes of hunger. With this data we were able co-design better tailored programs with communities. Teams used geospatial data to develop historical patterns of vulnerability to natural hazards and a story through field consultations with livelihood representatives and line ministries. But we weren’t alone. Our sister agencies went where our mandate didn’t. UNHCR, Unicef, WHO, FAO, all work together through our consultative design processes. Whether it's designing the Rohingya refugee Transition with a brilliant team of 5 experts in Cox's Bazar, or planning community engineering interventions in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, we were constantly learning and improving our operations. We even developed and facilitated emergency response simulations with the military and humanitarian organizations in Nepal.One of my favorite things is finding bottlenecks and understanding how to unclog systems. That's why I led an experimental project that uses AI Natural Language Generation to produce narratives on the best actions to take when specific livelihoods are affected by flood, drought and other seasonal disasters. One of 7 finalists selected out of 800 concepts at the Innovation Accelerator Google Launchpad 2019!

Roma, Rm, It

Venezuela emergency preparedness cell

Roma, Rm, It

From climate change assessments in rural Vietnam, to Nepal's post-earthquake operational review of our infrastructure projects. Whether in Latin America, or Asia, I worked with brilliant teams to redesign livelihood support operations in rural areas

Roma, Rm, It

With a team of 4 emergency responders, we helped prepare several country offices for earthquakes, floods, droughts, storms. No emergency is alike so the learning curve was challenging. From laying the groundwork for countries to acquire humanitarian infrastructure, to coordinating emergency simulations with the government and military in Nepal, the EPR team was ready to go!

Roma, Rm, It

Roma, Rm, It

With a team of three field experts we designed the first corporate guidelines for asset creation programs to be used for our more than 50 such operations. We redesigned humanitarian operations to base everything on historial data analysis while validating it through community planning and design. From rehabilitating drought areas, to reforesting denuded watersheds, we covered the highlands of Ethiopia, to the Central American drought corridor scratching our heads to figure out the best way to address environmental challenges that were keeping people poor and hungry. I coordinated the first-ever USAID-WFP Resilience initiative in 8 countries, which has led to leaps in the way we design humanitarian interventions in all our operational regions.

Washington, Dc, Us

Lawrence, Ks, Us

Founded Latin Lab, the first global beat show, which is still active 20 years on!

New York, Ny, Us

Cornerstone Agency's guerrilla marketing team was at the forefront of a revolution in branding and artist promotion in the US, started through The Fader's FARM team. We were the first influencers of the internet era before there was Instagram and Facebook :) I deployed tactical product placement campaigns for Outkast, Coldplay, Jurassic 5, System of a Down, Xbox, Nokia, and others in a multimillion coverage market. I prototyped products and landed connections with market media and brick & mortar owners. I was national employee of the month on my first two-months on the job, rocking sales for the release of Coldplay's second album and subsequently moving on to design a local campaign for Outkast's Hey Ya! album release.

Ethics, Technology + Public Policy For Practitioners Program

Creativity And Design Thinking Program

Product Management

Ma, International Relations (Coups And State Instability/ Development Economics)

Bachelor Of Science (Bs) In Journalism & Mass Communications, Communications