Priscilla is the Lead Director of the Kirchner Fellowship Costa Rica. She also serves as a monitoring officer for Poás Bioenergy, a local startup in the bioeconomy sector, where she led the design of the company’s environmental and social management system.
Her experience includes working as a financial advisor and board member of MyM Productores, a family-run business that exported ornamental plants to markets in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. She also worked with the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Promoter (PROCOMER), where she implemented business acceleration programs in collaboration with local and international organizations. These programs supported companies in achieving their export goals and raising capital by improving go-to-market strategies, conducting financial analyses, and strengthening governance with sustainable and effective practices.
As Partnership Manager at AUGE, the entrepreneurship agency of the University of Costa Rica, and in the economic diplomacy unit at the Embassy of the Netherlands in San José, she supported early-stage entrepreneurs and promoted initiatives aimed at fostering innovation policies and university-industry collaboration.
Priscilla holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a degree in International Trade from the National University of Costa Rica, as well as an MBA from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology. She also studied Chinese culture at Shandong Normal University in China.