Meet The Team
Ann Lutterman-Aguilar
Site Director and Instructor: Ann completed 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 teh areas of critical, experiential, and feminist pedagogies; intercultural communication; liberation theologies; and women's studies. She enjoys traveling, hiking, reading novels, and participating in several community organizations. Ann is a dual citizen of Mexico and the United States.
Lisanne Morgan
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. Lisanne 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.
Antonio Ortega
Program Coordinator and Instructor:Antonio earned his Licenciatura in Accounting at La Salle University in Mexico City and completed 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.
Violeta Jamarillo
Instructor: Violeta was born in Mexico City, where she spent most of her childhood. She majored in Industrial Engineering with a focus on Quality and Productivity at Zacatepec's Institute for Technology. Upon graduation in 2001, she joined Burlington Performance Wear as a Junior Engineer. She began her M.B.A., focusing on Enterprise Direction. After leaving Burlington, Violeta started a new adventure in the French Gemplus Company, where she worked in manufacturing, and improved production processes by finding the best way operators could work with complex requirements coming from all over Latin America. She was soon promoted and began working with international and intercultural teams from France, Poland, and the United States. Currently, Violeta is a full-time professor at UPEMOR, in addition to her responsibilities teaching in the International Business and Global Citizenship course. During her spare time, Violeta enjoys reading novels and self-improvement books that follow Louise L. Hay's writings, watching movies, and traveling with her boyfriend, Carlos, and child, Inaki.
Abril Olmos
Adjunct Professor: Abril has the Mexican equivalent of two Masters degrees - one in Anthropoligy and the other in Psychology. Her recent thesis was on racism against indigenous peoples in the northern Mexican stat of Chihuahua, where she was born. Most of her professional experience is related to social science research. For the past five years, she has worked with various immersion programs on globalization and social justice. She is also very passionate about feminism, psychoanalysis, languages, and English literature.
Intern: Molly graduated in 2010 from William Jewell College in Liberty, MO with a B.A. in History. She participated in CGE's Central America program in the Spring of 2009, sparking her interest in Latin American affairs. Eager to pursue this interest further, she moved to Cuenca, Ecuador to teach English and improve her Spanish. Although her main passion lies in combating human trafficking, she is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with CGE's Cuernavaca programs in order to learn about issues specific to
Mexico. In the future, she would like to obtain a master's degree in Human Rights and Social Justice. Molly enjoys riding her bike, baking bread with her fiancee Ryan, camping and backpacking, spending time with her niece, and doing crossword puzzles.
