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Faculty at our International Sites
Mexico Central America Africa
Internship Coordinator & Adjunct Faculty. Stephanie earned her Masters of Theological Studies with a focus on Interfaith Dialogue, from Vanderbilt University, and earned her B.A. in Religion and English at Mary Washington College in Virginia. Before coming to Cuernavaca she worked at the College of Preachers in Washington D.C. as a Program Associate, designing programs and recruiting speakers. She has also been very involved with the Women’s Ordination Conference and helped to found the Young Feminist Network and organized a conference on the theme of leadership for young women. She came to Cuernavaca in December 2000 to work for the Center for Intercultural Dialogue on Development (CCIDD) as a Program Director. There she helped facilitate 2-week programs for those interested in developing an understanding of the political, social, cultural, and economic realities of Mexico through experiential learning. Since leaving CCIDD Stephanie has worked as a freelance consultant and has taught English, most recently at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, a private university in Cuernavaca (known locally as the “Tec de Monterrey”). She joined the CGE staff in January 2004 and now serves as the overall coordinator of the summer program. She works half-time from June-December and full-time during the rest of the year.
Program & Administrative Coordinator, studied Art at the University of the Americas and Photography at a private college in Mexico City. She studied drawing and then worked as teacher's assistant in Robin Bonds art studio, also in Mexico City. As a young woman she worked as a pre-school and first grade teacher, and taught English and art to junior high students as well, at the Escuela Decroly de la Ciudad de Mexico where, after a couple of years, she took on the position of pre-school coordinator. Years later, now living in Cuernavaca where she's lived since 1987, Marisela had her own art school for children while experimenting with organic horticulture. In the 1990s she worked in Telemanita, an NGO dedicated to teaching women and children media literacy, electronic communications and how to use video to record and archive personal histories. For several years she worked in CETLALIC Alternative Spanish School, where she promoted the school and coordinated the Lesbian Studies Program. Her primary academic interests are in art, gender and literature. She enjoys friends, music, dancing, drawing, reading, movies and swimming.
Homestay & Program Coordinator. Lisanne earned a Hon. B.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Spanish, from York University in Toronto. Before she began consulting for CGE in 2002, she worked as a Program Director for the Cuernavaca Center for Intercultural Dialogue on Development (CCIDD) from 1995-2001. There she led groups from the U.S. and Canada, facilitating a program for those interested in developing an understanding of the political, social, cultural, and economic realities of Mexico through experiential learning. After leaving CCIDD, Lisanne worked as a freelance translator and consultant. She has also coordinated and facilitated exposure programs to the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Cuba, Chiapas, and Mexico City. Although she had previously worked as a consultant with CGE, she joined the CGE team more formally in January of 2003. Lisanne is a Canadian citizen. Together with Chon Diaz, she will set up and coordinate your homestays with Mexican host families. She will also drive, translate, and facilitate experiential aspects of the educational program, as needed. She works half-time from June-December and full-time during the rest of the year.
Adjunct Professor & Program Coordinator (antoniocge@laneta.apc.org) Antonio earned his Licenciatura in Accounting at La Salle University in Mexico City and is currently pursuing a Masters degree in History at the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia en Humanidades CIDHEM (Center for Teaching & Research on Humanities), Cuernavaca, Morelos. Antonio is a Certified Public Accountant who worked for several years in the Mexican stock market. However, he wasn’t happy wearing a suit and tie nor living in Mexico City. He then went to Oxford, England where he studied English, but after a year he felt homesick, so he moved to Cuernavaca, where he has lived happily ever after since 1990. Prior to joining CGE in January of 2003, Antonio spent several years teaching English and working at CETLALIC Alternative Spanish School, where he promoted the school and coordinated the Gay & Lesbian Studies Program. In 1999Antonio received a Teaching Certificate from the Anglo American School. He is also a founder and active member of Grupo CD4, a non profit organization devoted to fight AIDS through sexual education. His primary academic interests are LGBT issues, literature, and history. He enjoys traveling, movies, reading, and writing.
Program Coordinator and Adjunct Faculty. Judy earned her M.A. in International Affairs with a specialization in Latin American Studies from Columbia University and received her B.A. in International Relations with a minor in Spanish at the University of California at Davis. Prior to joining CGE in 1991, Judy worked in Nicaragua as a liaison for the Network of Educators on Central America (NECA) and as a grants consultant for a Salvadoran refugee cooperative, where she focused on human rights issues. She has also worked and conducted research in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and El Salvador. Judy's primary academic interests are in social movements, anti-racism, and gender studies. Judy lives just outside Cuernavaca in an ecological community with her husband, his 15-year-old daughter, and her dogs. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, dog training and hiking. In her role as the Administrative Director, she has focused on conflict management and democratic forms of decision-making in a cross-cultural context. She works at an average of 75% time throughout the year and will assist with driving, translating, and the set-up of experiential activities for your program as needed.
Central America
Ruth started as a program coordinator in Guatemala in November 2005. Ruth Magaly Garrido Gómez is a Guatemalan citizen who received a bilingual degree at the Instituto Guatemalteco Americano (IGA), and then studied business in Stow, Ohio from 1993 to 1995. After working at the Akron Music Center in administrative accounting, Ruth returned to Guatemala where she handled all programming and interpretation for North American student groups as the Associate Director for Central America Study and Service (SEMILLA) from 1996 to 1999. Ruth has also served as the co-coordinator for Sister Parish Linkage, accompanying North American Sister Parish delegations to Guatemala. Currently, Ruth most recently was the coordinator of handicraft projects for the Sharing the Dream Organization.
Fidel is a Guatemalan citizen of the Cakchiquel Maya ethnic group. He is from a small village called Chipiacul, in the Department of Chimaltenango. He studied at the Catholic High School Seminary in Sololá, and at Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala City, where he received a B.A. in Secondary Education and Philosophy. In 1984, Fidel received a scholarship from the New Ulm Dioceses of Minnesota to study at St. Paul Seminary at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he graduated with a M. Div. in 1988.
Since returning to Guatemala in 1988, Fidel worked with the San Lucas Tolimán Parish as director of catechists and delegates of the word, as well as teacher and high school principal in his home village. He also worked closely with Sister Parish since its inception in Guatemala, organizing parish-to-parish linkages, and working with delegations.
Fidel joined the staff of the Center in 1993 working with the Center's short-term travel seminars, then with semester programs. Fidel feels that this work has taught him about his own society and its problems, and he really enjoys an active exchange of ideas with North Americans and people from other countries who participate in the programs. He currently lives in San Lucas Sacatepéquez, a town near Guatemala City with his wife and three children.
César was born in El Salvador and as a youth participated in the Christian Base Community movement and other social movements. In 1982, due to the political repression, Cesar and his family were forced to leave El Salvador. He lived in exile in Canada until returning to El Salvador in 1993. In Canada, he maintained close contact with the situation in El Salvador, primarily through his work with the El Salvador Ethno-cultural and Humanitarian Society and the Salvadoran Base Christian Community in Exile.
Prior to working for CGE, Cesar was youth educator for FUNDASIDA, the Salvadoran National AIDS Foundation. His work entailed training youth promoters in HIV/AIDS issues, including transmission and ways to avoid AIDS, human sexuality, gender roles, and self-esteem. He also has worked with Sister Parish in El Salvador and with organizations in Canada working on refugee resettlement.
While in Canada, César received a Social Work Diploma from Grant MacEwan College and has worked as a social worker. He recently concluded his studies in Latin American Social Work at the Salvadoran Lutheran University and is currently working on a thesis on the process of reinsertion of Salvadoran deportees from the United States.
Peggy completed her Masters Degree in Theology at the University of Marquette and her Doctoral Degree at New York University. She has taught at Iona College in New York and Barry University in Florida. She presently teaches for Casa de Solidaridad, a study abroad program for university students from the United States. Peggy has lived in El Salvador since 1987.
Suyen started as a program coordinator in Nicaragua in January. She holds a B.A in international relations from Mobile University, San Marcos, Nicaragua and a M.S. in environmental studies with a concentration in environmental policy from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Prior to her work in the Center, Suyen worked as campaign and project coordinator for various Nicaraguan non-governmental organizations involved in environmental work at the national and international level. Her experience includes: research, lobbying and advocacy work on Nicaraguan environmental policy; the relationship of macroeconomic policies and natural resource management in Nicaragua (analysis on external debt, free trade agreements); organizational, educational and advocacy work involving ethnic, indigenous communities and local organizations in the Caribbean of Nicaragua. In addition to working with travel seminars Suyen teaches Political Science in the CGE semester program in Nicaragua.
Mark shares the position of Regional Co-Director of Central America and the Caribbean for the Center for Global Education with Kathy McBride. In addition they share the responsibility for the Center's program in Nicaragua. Mark began working with the Center in 1987. His responsibilities include designing educational experiences that help participants from the First World explore Third World culture and issues and understand the impact that relationship has on the lives of the local population. I In addition, Mark is the representative of the Winds of Peace Foundation, part of a contract with the Center for Global Education in Managua.
In Nicaragua, Mark has also been Material Aids Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee, and represented the Wisconsin Coordinating Committee on Nicaragua in the Central Credit Committee of CEPAD in their Nicaraguan Community Development Loan Fund. He coordinates the Sub-Committee on Neo-liberalism for the Ecumenical Committee of U.S. Church Personnel in Nicaragua.
Prior to his work with the Center, Mark was a pastor of San Dionisio Parish in San Dionisio, Matagalpa, Nicaragua for two years (1985-87). He received cross-cultural and language school training with the Maryknoll Missioners Associate Priest Program in both New York and Bolivia. He was also a parish priest and high school religion teacher in Ft. Wright, Kentucky. Mark received his B.A. in Philosophy from St. Pius X Seminary in Erlanger, Kentucky and his M.A. in Theology with a concentration in Scripture from Mt. St. Mary Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
Juan Carlos Lopez is a Program Coordinator for the Center’s program in Nicaragua. He is a Nicaraguan and graduated from the Central American University in Managua with a degree in English translation. Before joining the Center, Juan Carlos worked for 6 years at the El Limon Mine with a Canadian gold-mining company as a translator and manager of the procurement department. He joined the Center as a Study Abroad Facilitator in August of 2001. In addition to his work with the center, Juan Carlos has worked with exchange programs through churches and has accompanied doctors and dentists from the US who come to provide free medical and dental consultations for rural Nicaraguans. Juan Carlos is married and has a lovely wife and two children.
Kathy shares the position of Regional Co-Director of Central America and the Caribbean for the Center for Global Education with Mark Lester. In addition they share the responsibility for the Center's program in Nicaragua. Her responsibilities include coordinating the Central America semester abroad program, oversight of regional staff and programming, and designing cross-cultural educational experiences within Nicaragua for travel seminar participants and university students.
Prior to joining the Center for Global Education in 1988, Kathy worked with the Christian Base Communities for three years in Nicaragua. Before moving to Nicaragua in 1984, she worked for 8 years in community development in a squatters’ settlement on the outskirts of the city of Caracas, Venezuela. Her primary work involved literacy training and teaching primary health care to women factory workers. Kathy has received theological and cross-cultural training in the Maryknoll Lay Mission Program. She holds a B.A. in Latin American Studies from George Mason University and Masters Degree in Education from Harvard University with a concentration in International Education. Kathy teaches History & Women´s Studies in Nicaragua since 1999.
Southern Africa/Namibia
Program Coordinator and Interim Site Director, Urbanus Benjamin Dax was born in Rehoboth, a small town south from Windhoek. He received his primary school education there. After having completed his high school education at the Augustineum Training College, Urbanus enrolled for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of the North in South Africa in 1972. In 1974, Urbanus successfully completed his studies majoring in Social Work and Sociology. Shortly thereafter, Urbanus began working as a social worker with the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Having worked for some years for the church, he was fortunate to have obtained a bursary through the Lutheran World Federation and studied toward a Masters degree in Education at the then Mankato State University in Minnesota.
Urbanus joined CGE-Namibia in 2002 as a Program Coordinator. He instructs a course that explores the process of political and social change that has been occurring in Southern Africa during the latter part of the 20th century. It also examines the educational, political, social and economic models adopted in South Africa and Namibia. Urbanus is married to Maria Shivute Dax, and has four children. In addition to his domestic responsibilities, Urbanus’ hobbies include watching soccer and working on his farm.
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Stephanie Barnes
Marisela Chaplin
Christina
Olson graduated from Bemidji State University with a
bachelor’s degree in Social Work. She decided to take up Social
Work after working in an orphanage for 10 months in El Salvador,
taking care of and educating children. She went into Social Work
not knowing that she would move from wanting to “help” people to
wanting to empower people. Christina finished up her studies
with an internship in faith-based community organizing.
Christina is a graduate of the Social Work in a Latin American
Context with CGE from the Spring of 2008. She is excited to work
with students who have taken this step with CGE! Christina will
make time to read, play the piano, pet a cat, dive into the
ocean, go to church and listen to people. The Spring of 2009
will be her first semester interning with CGE. Together with
Julie Rogers, she will serve as a Teaching Assistant, assist
with the logistics and coordination of the program, and help
students with their adaptation to Cuernavaca. She will also
facilitate or co-facilitate the weekly Social Change Lab Group
sessions, which are an integral part of the core courses.
Ann Lutterman-Aguilar,
site Director and Adjunct Faculty. Ann is currently pursuing her doctorate in International Feminist Theologies. She earned her Masters in Divinity (M.Div.) with a focus on liberation theologies from Yale University and her B.A. in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College. In 2000 she completed a certificate program in Intercultural Communication. Prior to joining the CGE staff in 1993, Ann worked in the ecumenical campus ministry at Penn State University and in a refugee camp in El Salvador during the civil war there. She has also worked with several different organizations as a full-time activist advocating women’s rights, human rights, LGBT rights, and changes in U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Her academic interests are in the following areas: the Psychology of religion, gender, and social change; theologies of liberation; environmental ethics; intercultural communication; and experiential education. She enjoys traveling, hiking, reading novels, and participating in several community organizations. She is also involved in curriculum development and the overall coordination of CGE academic programs in Mexico and other CGE locations, as well as teaching during the summer programs and facilitating short-term seminars. She works full-time throughout the year and will assist with driving, translating, and the set-up of experiential activities for your program as needed.
Lisanne Morgan
Antonio Ortega
Judith Shevelev
Ruth Garrido 
César Acevedo 
Margaret (Peggy) O’Neill
Suyen Barahona Cuan 
Mark Lester
Juan
Carlos López
Kathleen McBride
Urbanus B. Dax
Romanus
Shivoro, program coordinator and adjunct professor in
Namibia. He has a bachelor’s in education from the University of
Namibia and a master of arts in education from the University of
Lucknow in India. He has been a lecturer at the Institute of
Open Learning and University of Namibia, and served as an
education technical training coordinator for the U.S. Peace
Corps in Namibia.
Kristin
Barstad 
