An entrepreneur, strategist, writer, and curator working in crypto since 2017, Maria Paula (MP), is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and now lives in Berlin. Before joining Avara, MP co-founded JPG, a company that has built cultural infrastructure for NFTs. She's also the Founder and former Managing Director of the Department of Decentralization/ETHBerlin, an NGO dedicated to educating about crypto and alternative technologies since 2018. MP is a seasoned crypto native who throughout her career has consulted on or worked for some of the most prominent projects in the blockchain world. For MP, like for most Latin Americans, crypto is a life-saving technology and essential to survive and thrive by giving back control of systems and finances to people.