Meet Caro Tejada

 

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Caro Tejada. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Caro below.

Hi Caro, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

My faith in God never fails. God is my resilience. I am strong because of Him. I understand there is a higher power that loves me. I have had many dark days, but God has never failed me. And here I am! sharing the good news! happy to alive, excited to share my projects, talking to local communities, I am so grateful for life and creation. I am also thankful for the trials and tribulations. Any opportunity we get to try and be better: I will take it.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I am an artist, creative director of the art project: Hope the Blue Robot. We just launched our art campaign in NYC and we are excited to keep expanding. We are publishing our first edition children’s book, with Hope the Blue Robot making its illustration debut as a character.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Curiosity!
Clarity of Communication
Emotional Self Awareness.

Learning in public! (and share what you learned.) Doing this invited precious feedback that helped me in remarkable ways.

Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?

Yes! We love to collaborate with institutions, companies and the community at large. I raise funds through my mental health awareness pin campaign in order to keep bringing my project to children at no cost. I also donate proceeds of my company: Caro Artelier to the project. Follow us @hopethebluerobot @caroartelier

My name is María Carolina Tejada Burgos (Caro Tejada.) I am an artist and activist of hope. I started this campaign for children, a campaign that will keep expanding into lobbying for real positive change in the world. I am calling all of those who seek the light of the world. This journey starts now.


Our plan:

Fundraiser 1
20 poses/20 illustrations
Amount raised: $2000

1. We raised these funds to cover 20 illustrations of 20 poses of children’s answers to the question: What is HOPE?

What is Hope? First edition illustrated book, a book for and from children. If hope is a character, this is it! Stay tuned for the book release: October 10th, 2025 (world mental health day.)

The raised amount helped cover the illustrations Dav_le_dessineux, the talented illustrator that works for Disney! Thank you to all my donors for making this dream possible!

Fundraiser 2
Help us print stickers for tagging
Amount Raised $180

1. We raised these funds and have started tagging businesses and neighborhoods around communities

1. Upper Buena Vista
2. Design District
3. Midtown
4. Wynwood

Fundraiser 3
Help us bring print mental health awareness support pin samples
Amount raised: $150

We invested $150 in creating a mental health awareness mockup display. Thank you to my donors who made this possible.

Fundraiser 4 (Current Stage)
Help us bring Mental Health Awareness Campaign for Children
Amount needed: $1500

We are using our mockup display to get the community involved. On this stage of the plan, we are asking businesses to get involved by carrying our mental health awareness support pins.

To date (8/25/25) these markets have agreed to carry our mental health awareness support pins:

1. City Fresh NYC
2. Cherry Valley NYC

When we raise our funds, we will order an initial 1.000 pins to distribute accordingly.

Sale proceeds of our mental health awareness campaign go to children and the oppressed, those who have no means. Hope the Blue Robot. A project brought to the community ProBono.

Follow US:

IG @whatishope.kids www.whatishope.kids
@hopethebluerobot

This is the time to get involved.

Thank you for supporting the arts for mental health.

We are happy to keep expanding our family, to ultimately find and keep the light of the world. My fondest memory as a child was wanting to go to the promise land: Jerusalem. Maybe we can work towards shaping the world itself as a beautiful, peaceful and hopeful promise land.

best,
Caro Tejada
Creative Director
Hope the Blue Robot

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