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Meet Margaux

Margaux Dinerman is the founder of Worlds Converge. She serves on the Board of Directors of the San Diego World Affairs Council and is a Major Gift Officer with one of Southern California's leading public media organizations. With more than 20 years of leadership in the nonprofit sector and more than three decades of experience in cultural travel, education, and cross-cultural engagement, she has organized and led educational travel experiences that foster meaningful connections between travelers and the communities they visit.

Her passion for cultural immersion began at age six, when her mother, a cultural anthropologist, took the family to live in Pátzcuaro, Mexico. Those early experiences sparked a lifelong curiosity about the people, traditions, and stories that shape cultures around the world.

That curiosity led Margaux to spend more than a decade living, studying, and conducting fieldwork in Cuba, where she immersed herself in Afro-Cuban music, dance, and spiritual traditions. Those experiences profoundly shaped her understanding of how culture, history, and identity are passed from one generation to the next.

Over the course of her career, Margaux has organized and traveled with groups to more than 30 countries. She has led cultural tours to remote Emberá and Guna communities in Panama, facilitated educational and cultural exchanges in Cuba, and developed relationships with local guides, scholars, artists, and community leaders around the world. Her approach has always emphasized cultural exchange over traditional tourism.

On her first journey to Morocco, she recognized profound connections between Gnawa music and the Afro-Cuban traditions that had shaped her life. That experience inspired the creation of Worlds Converge. Since then, she has returned to Morocco numerous times, cultivating enduring relationships with local tourism professionals, historians, artisans, guides, and community leaders that form the foundation of every Worlds Converge journey.

Today, Margaux combines a lifetime of travel, cultural exploration, philanthropy, and cross-cultural engagement to create thoughtfully designed journeys that inspire curiosity, foster meaningful human connection, and deepen understanding. She believes the most transformative travel happens not simply by visiting a destination, but by building relationships with the people who call it home.

“The most meaningful bridges are not made of stone or steel, but of curiosity, empathy, and the willingness to see our shared humanity.”