Leonor Espinosa is a plastic artist and economist. She currently runs the kitchens in her restaurants: LEO and MISIA. For the last six years, Leonor has made the list of Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants, which also named her Latin America’s Best Female Chef in 2017. Another of her accolades that year was the Basque Culinary World Prize 2017. Both nationally and internationally, she is currently the world’s most widely recognized Colombian chef. With her daughter, Laura Hernández Espinosa, she leads the FUNLEO foundation in order to carry out work in the community.