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 FABIOLA E. GORIS- KARIMIPOURBORN IN 1964 in the Dominican Republic. She has a BA. In Business Administration, and a Master in Business Administration mention Marketing. Fabiola also went to NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York, to obtain a Certificate in Arts Administration. Additionally got enrolled into a year program to study Special Events.In 1994, worked as a Liason to the Latino Community at Harlem School of the Arts New York, to develop a Latin Outreach program to increase its exposure in the Latin Community. At HSA, she was charged with identifying the target audience, creating outreach plan and developing community contacts. Within one year of her plan HSA’s Latin student enrollment increased from 13 to 25 percent.In 1998, Fabiola was recruited by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council “LMCC” to fill the role of Associate Director of Decentralization Community Regrant Program for Manhattan. This regrant program was founded by New York State Council on the Arts and was created to support community based art projects. Fabiola core projects were to help to create links between the Dec Program and other LMCC and city-wide initiatives. Because of her expanded effort in outreach, publicity and marketing plan, applications from Latino groups increased to 15 percent in FY1997. Latino Pool of applicants increased by 20 percent in FY98. Due to her initiatives in bilingual technical assistance to Latino Applicants, she was able to develop a sense of trust and cooperation within their communities. LMCC is now better known in the Latino Community of Manhattan and the constituents LMCC serves.In year 2000, She moved to South America (Chile). Currently, she is a private consultant offering technical assistance in “Arts Management” to individual artists and non profit organizations in Latin America and the United States. She also works in the creation, development and execution of artistic multi-cultural projects. Another important aspect of her experience has been to develop collaborative programs with various non for profit cultural institutions, especially in the performing arts and visual arts field. Some of her latest clients include Universidad Gabriela Mistral, Chile, Universidad Vina del Mar, Chile, Parque Arauco, S.A., Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Chile, Secretaria de Estado de Turismo of Dominican Republic in Chile, Embassy of Czech Republic in Chile and Embassy of Republic of Indonesia in Chile and diverse individual independent visual artists among others. She is moving back to New York City this month of August.