Cristina Burelli is a social entrepreneur, founder, and executive director of V5Initiative, a nonprofit that advises and connects civil society organizations in the Americas that focus on universal values, family, freedom and democracy, social entrepreneurship and innovation.

Since moving from her native country, Venezuela, to the US in 2000, Cristina has been deeply involved in various nonprofits in the US that are mainly focused on education and youth, such as Cambridge in America, the Orchestra of the Americas, The Global Leaders Program, Families of Character, National Fatherhood Initiative, and the Washington Studies Group. The common thread in her work in all these organizations has been her passion for education and the promotion of universal values through different means including classical music.

She holds an MA in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University, England.