Maria Crespo

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Director of Member Support

Maria Crespo serves as the Director of Member Support (both for Cooperation Circles (CCs) and Individual Members) from her office in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is also the URI Impact Assessment Project Manager. She maintains communication with CCs around the world, manages the CC approval process and is the staff liaison for the CC Approval Committee. Maria moderates URI’s listservs, assists with URI's social media activities, and oversees data collection for URI’s CCs. Prior to this, she served as the Regional Coordinator for Latin America for five years. Maria originally became involved with URI in 1997 when she was appointed as a Trustee in the Interim Global Council. By profession, she is a bilingual school teacher. She is very involved in the Roman Catholic Church. Maria is married and has five children.

URI Stories of Impact

Greetings from My Heart

A few years ago, Karimah Stauch, founding member and the Regional Coordinator for URI Europe since 2003, shared a heartfelt outpouring expressing her tension, her conviction, her longings, love and gratitude.

A Prayer for the Sacred Community

A Catholic monk, Brother Wayne Teasdale (1945-2004) was an energetic proponent of mutual understanding between the world’s religions and for engaging in interfaith dialogue which he termed “interspirituality.”

Universal Prayer for Peace

This prayer is an adaptation of a famous mantra from the Hindu Upanishads, translated by Satish Kumar, a Jain Monk.