Vilma “Nina” Balmaceda

Nina is a scholar-practitioner whose work focuses on interdisciplinary education and civic leadership development for justpeace and reconciliation. She serves as the associate director of the Center for Reconciliation and a consulting faculty member of the practice of reconciliation and Hispanic studies at Duke University’s Divinity School. She is also president and CEO of Peace and Hope International (PHI), a faith-based peacebuilding nonprofit dedicated to preventing and confronting violence and other forms of injustice in Latin America. Born and raised in Lima, Peru, where Nina worked in the human rights field, she holds a Law degree by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; master degrees in International Peace Studies and in Government; and a PhD in Political Science by the University of Notre Dame du Lac. Nina and her family are based in Durham, North Carolina.