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Carolina Fernandez, is an Author, Artist, Advisor and Activist, who has always worked from places of passion.

While raising four kids, moving across country to nine different homes with the dog, fish, gerbils, guinea pigs and Russian dwarf hamsters in tow, she found, especially looking back, that those years held some pretty humourous moments. She wrote about them in her first book, ROCKET MOM! 7 Strategies to Blast You into Brilliance. Her second book, Country French Kitchens, came about when she couldn’t find the resources she needed to design and install an authentic Country French kitchen of her own. Two more books are in the works, both arising from places where she believes the world needs another voice. As in her first two books, these reflect her desire to write about “the intersection of creativity and…”

Her more than two hundred original published articles have been syndicated by over 60,000 unique online sites, blogs, newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. Her writing has been included in six bestselling anthologies, and she has been quoted in such publications as NewsDay, Parenting, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Nickelodeon, BottomLine Personal and Advertising Age. Her house was featured on the cover of Connecticut Home & Garden for its “kitchen with personality.” She has appeared as a guest on radio and television programs across the country, including the FOX Business News program “Your World with Neil Cavuto” and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s morning talk radio program.

As artist, she has undertaken projects ranging from hooking rugs to painting in oils to singing onstage in Carnegie Hall. Her paintings can be found online and in local establishments in Connecticut. She has developed strong convictions about the role of the arts in child development, and is committed to inspiring creativity in people of all ages. A town-appointed member of its Arts Council, she is a Founding Principal of ARTES advisory, llc, an art advisory firm dedicated to the needs of individual collectors and art enthusiasts. She is also Editor-at-Large for ARTES Magazine, an e-magazine celebrating fine art, architecture and design.

As Advisor, she works in the Private Client space, serving artists, entertainers and creative entrepreneurs. Of particular interest is working in the center of the art market, positioning clients in ways that not only best serve their needs; Carolina believes that art changes everyone, and she works to bring clients to art that changes them. That art may be found in private galleries in New York City, or in villages in the Third World that simply speaks to their need for expanding their circle of concern. While artists, museums, galleries and the major auction houses bring art to people, Carolina brings people to art. She leads art pilgrimages in an effort to literally bring people to art: to experience art, appreciate art and to be changed by art.

Trips to disenfranchised communities both here and in the Third World have inspired long-percolating interest in the role of art and culture on emerging economies. An upcoming trip to Rwanda has fueled activism in this area. While in Rwanda, visits will be made to outlying villages in order to see how micro-financing opportunities might bring economic stability to working artisans and crafts people. Art lectures to civic leaders might help generate ideas for how to build sustainable businesses. Using her business background and education, and her entrepreneurial skills and mindset, she hopes to add value to the regions she visits, and to continue to serve in this role for the foreseeable future.

Carolina believes that creativity is the silver bullet, and works passionately in this area in order to effect change. Adopting the “doing well by doing good” business model, she tries to put into practice the many guiding principles of social entrepreneurship, understanding that change comes when vision is attached to commitment, clarity, energy and creativity.