Steve Reifenberg

Steve Reifenberg

"For nearly two decades, Steve has worked on international education, negotiation and development issues at Harvard University. From 1996 to 2002, he served as the Executive Director of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). In August 2002, he and his family moved to Santiago where Steve set up the DRCLAS Regional Office which manages all of Harvard’s student programs in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, as well as coordinates Harvard faculty research projects in these countries. He is one of the founding partners of the Patagonia Sur LLC. In the early 1980s, he lived and worked for two years at a small orphanage in Santiago, and published a book about his experiences, “Santiago’s Children: What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile”, Steve earned a Master in Public Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, a Master in Print Journalism from Boston University, and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame."


 * Director, Patagonia Sur Foundation