Barbara Katzenstein Jimenez

Barbara Katzenstein Jimenez was born in New York City on December 7th, 1942. She attended the Bentley School, as well as the Martha Graham School of Dance, the Art School of the Museum of Modern Art and the Dalcroze School of Music. She graduated rom Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y in 1963 with a concentration in history/ political science and married her husband, Luis Enrique Jimenez Vallecilla ( an industrial engineering graduate of Stanford U.) in November of that same year.

Subsequently, they moved to Colombia, S.A., where the author pursued graduate studies in Pre-Colombian archaeology.

Most interestingly, as a prelude to this present endeavor, the author photographed extensively and translatedfor Conciviles, S.A. a national construction company in Colombia. This led her to write a series of illustrated newspaper articles describing an international coal mining venture. It was a contentious projectthat involved issues of foreign investment, population displacement, royalty payments and repatriation of profits.