Patricia Juana Caceres has been connected to textiles since she was very young because both her parents are artisans. She studied at The University Mayor de San Andres in La Paz in Communications and later studied tendencies and quality control through the mayor's office of La Paz. She attended USAID program BCCN focus on designs, then a 2 year course on design and use of colours through COPROCA. Later she worked with international designer Brigitte Landawer. Her main inspiration as a designer is "when you design you play with the imagination, forms and techniques of weaving".

Five years ago, she build her own workshop together with her husband (Carlos Soliz).

For Patricia working with Awayu means she can help in a direct way the community and especially the people of El Alto since they (Awayu) can give work to many artisans and at the same time she can help the artisans to improve their techniques and teach them them about tendencies and ways to improve the products that they produce.

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