Staff

Ellen L. Lutz, Executive Director, has been working in the international human rights field for over 25 years. Prior to joining Cultural Survival she ran the Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution and taught courses in international human rights law, international criminal law, and other international law subjects at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. From 1989 to 1994, she served as the California Director for Human Rights Watch and as HRW’s principal researcher on Mexico. She has written widely on human rights and conflict resolution, international and transnational accountability for human rights violations, and on themes relating to human rights in Latin America. Ellen received her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985, and her master’s in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in 1978.

Mark Camp is Cultural Survival’s Director of Operations and Director of the Guatemala Radio Project. From 1993 to 1998, Mark ran Joint Effort, a small fair trade company that imported crafts from Maya cooperatives in Guatemala. He came to Cultural Survival in 1998 and served as Membership Coordinator and Editor of Cultural Survival Voices before assuming his current duties in 2004.

Mark Cherrington is Cultural Survival’s Director of Publications. He has been a magazine editor and publications specialist for nonprofit organizations for 25 years, including work at Amherst College and 18 years with the Earthwatch Institute. He has written or contributed to several books on environmental and social issues, and his writing and photography have appeared in many major magazines, including Discover, Time, Audubon, and Vogue. He has also lectured on environmental issues at universities across America and on national radio and television programs. For a number of years he worked as a professional musician all over the United States and overseas. He joined Cultural Survival’s staff at the beginning of 2006.

Jamie Malcolm-Brown is Cultural Survival’s Graphic Design and Information Technology Specialist. Jamie graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a degree in anthropology. Before coming to Cultural Survival, he helped establish a computer lab at The Charles J. Andrew Youth Treatment Centre in Sheshatshiu Labrador, Canada. He has since conducted similar work in Kenya with the Maasai Education Discovery.

Dave Favreau is Cultural Survival's Marketing Director. He is the Cultural Survival Bazaar organizer, works on media relations, partnerships, sponsorships and fundraising, as well as advertising, and circulation for the Cultural Survival Quarterly. In 2002, he graduated from Framingham State College with a BA in Sociology, concentrating on Cultural Anthropology, and a minor in Creative Writing & Communications.  He joined Cultural Survival in 2004.

Sofia Flynn is Cultural Survival’s Financial Officer. Sofia is originally from Cali, Colombia, and worked in international banking in Venezuela for 10 years before moving to the United States. Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, she has worked at Cultural Survival since 1989.

Cesar Gomez Moscut (Pokomam), Guatemala Radio Project Content and Training Coordinator, started working with the GRP as a volunteer and was hired as Production Coordinator in March, 2007. He is a bilingual (Pokomam Mayan and Spanish) student in communications at the University of San Carlos, Guatemala. Gomez previously served as the office manager for the Consejo Guatemalteco de Comunicacion Comunitaria, the umbrella organization for the community radio stations and their four associations.

Paula Palmer, Global Response Program Director, has directed Global Response campaigns since 1996. She is a sociologist and writer with 30 years' experience working in collaboration with Indigenous populations in Central America and the United States. In Costa Rica, she published five books of oral history in collaboration with Afro-Caribbean and Bribri Indigenous people, through a community empowerment process known as Participatory Action Research. From 1995 to 2001, Paula served as editor for health and environment of Winds of Change magazine, a publication of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). She holds an M.A. degree in sociology from Michigan State University and is adjunct faculty in the Environmental Studies Department of the Naropa University. She is recipient of the Elise Boulding Peacemaker of the Year Award (given by the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center) and the Jack Gore Memorial Peace Award (given by the American Friends Service Committee).

Agnes Portalewska, a Cultural Survival Program Officer, runs the indigenous artisan bazaar program, is the organizer of outreach events and advocacy initiatives, and works on the Guatemala Radio Project. Agnes is from Warsaw, Poland. She studied anthropology, Latin American studies, photography, and media production at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and holds a Master's degree in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University. She has traveled extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean, researched indigenous media, and taught photography workshops to children.

Jennifer Edwards Weston (Hunkpapa Lakota) is Cultural Survival's Program/Communications Officer for the Native Language Revitalization Campaign, which includes work on a Makepeace Productions documentary about the Wampanoag language. She also coordinates the internship program at Cultural Survival, and assists with production of the Quarterly magazine and web content. Jennifer grew up on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the Dakotas, and has served her tribal government as environmental outreach coordinator/grant writer, and executive assistant to the tribal chairman's office. As a student and employee at Brown University's Ethnic Studies program, Jennifer developed American Indian studies curricula and programs to support Native American student retention. Prior to joining Cultural Survival she worked as a correspondent for the Lakota Nation Journal, and as research assistant and associate web producer for episode one of the PBS Native history documentary series, "We Shall Remain."