My name is Carolina Meza Clark. I am originally from Colombia, South America and I have been living in the United States for the last 14 years. Three years ago, I started my journey with Bakke Graduate University where I am enrolled in the EMBA Program. I had a great opportunity to learn from professors that have such wisdom and understanding to bring the kingdom of God on this earth. I had the privilege to sit down with my classmates who are building shalom of the city they live in.

The EMBA program is helping me to go and walk with the people and create programs that are focusing on human beings. Cultivating the human being should be in the center of the economy. Economic mutuality is a very important concept for me: how we invest in people, planet, and profit and how we can, through that investment, bring a cultivation and transformation in many places.

With the experience from ten years and with the information from these three years of BGU behind me, I have had the opportunity to go back and give back to my own country, Colombia, where there is poverty and where my mom and my grandma live. I am reflecting on how God has been so good using a passage in the book of Jonah. In that passage, Jonah talks to God, and says that he knew from the very beginning that God is a merciful God, a God that loves and gives mercy to foreigners. I am reflecting on how people can see that God of mercy. How can we rebuild those communities for transformation and their well being?

My capstone was to create a business called C&D, Community and Development that serves as a bridge, a vehicle that we are using to bring the products from women in different countries, especially in my home country, Colombia, into the marketplace. We have connections with small businesses that do good to the planet and people, and that also create transformation, sustainability, and profitability for them. What I learned at BGU in the classrooms helped me to transform my community, and inspired many leaders around the world who are doing a great job to bring the shalom of God in this world.