Born abroad but raised in Chile. Cari grew up as a child stunned by the stars, she studied Industrial Engineering and getting a Master’s degree in Logistics (both at UNAB, Chile), and specializing with a graduate degree at MIT in Supply Chain Management (Cambridge, MA, USA).
But around 6 years ago, she discovered astrophotography, spending one year intensively learning positional and observational astronomy, as well as photography. Then, she decided to quit her job as an engineer to dedicate herself 24/7 to astrophotography and astronomy popularization, from where she also began to travel to capture skies from different latitudes and different weather and sky/earth phenomena.
Nowadays, she still dedicates lot of time to the study and improvement of her landscape astrophotography techniques, teaching classes on the same subject, and also promoting astronomical tourism. Constantly deepening her knowledge in Astronomy to contribute in the world of astronomy popularization with several organizations and collaborations with other astronomical popularization entities.
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away”
(Pablo Picasso)