About Me
I’m Anna Vogt. A friend once told me that it’s a name with integrity: the same coming as going. I think I’ll claim that.
I recently graduated with what I like to call my Masters Degree of Real Life: two years living and working in the community of Mampujan on the Caribbean Coast of Colombia with Mennonite Central Committee‘s Seed Program. I then transitioned to the capital of Colombia, Bogota, where I continued to work with MCC, as the Latin American advocacy and context analyst, out of the office of partner Justapaz.
I more recently relocated to Ottawa, where I work in advocacy and peacemaking with MCC.
All opinions expressed in this blog are mine.
This space is a reflection on a life lived in translation. Everything I experience, from language, to culture, to food, to society, to relationships, to politics, is interpreted through the lenses of who I am- as a Canadian/Colombian resident, as a woman, as a human being. The more I experience, however, the more my perspective changes and the translation shifts. Through it all, I seek to find the beauty, the grace and the absurd inherent in the everyday moments of life.
I also love coffee and llamas.
The Llama Diaries 
Greetings from Myanmar. Great to read your blog!!
Great to hear from you Glenn! I hope everyone is doing well!
Hi Anna, I’d like to know more about what you did/are doing…I live in Valledupar but hail from New Zealand, can I contact you?
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Anna I am enjoying the blog! It was a pleasure meeting you at York, I hope we can continue to collaborate down the road! El Colombo Gringo!
Thanks for stopping by Stefano! I’m glad you like the blog. However, I think you might be referring to Sara Koopman, of http://decolonizingsolidarity.blogspot.com/, who teaches at York. She has, however, mentioned to me your fascinating work on Canadian Colombian relationships, which I look forward to reading from Bogota.
Nice to find your blog. I’m an ALMOST 60 y.o. from Chicago. I spend most of my year in a pueblo just south of Cali with my husband, Orlando. I’m a photographer. I love Colombian coffee but most of the llamas I have met are real jerks. (That’s not the word a Chicagoan would use but you get the idea.)
Thanks for reading! I also love Colombian coffee and think the contrary nature of llamas makes them more interesting 🙂
Anna–Love your blog! What a beautiful letter testifying to hope for a future of peace you have published from the youth of Montes de María! Thank you so much. Abrazos.
Thanks Ginny! I agree- it is such a beautiful expression of hope and peace. I saw on the news yesterday that over a thousand people showed up at their mobilization.