Galina Angarova (Buryat), Executive Director, comes to Cultural Survival after serving as Program Officer at the Swift Foundation, and prior to that…
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Mark Camp, Deputy Executive Director, from 1993 to 1998, ran Joint Effort, a small fair trade company that imported crafts from Maya cooperatives in…
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Avexnim Cojti (Maya K'iche'), Director of Programs, is from Chuwila, Guatemala.
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Verónica Aguilar (Mixtec), Keepers of the Earth Fund Program Assistant, belongs to a migrant Mixtec community in Veracruz, Mexico.
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Bryan Bixcul (Maya Tz'utujil), Executive Coordinator, came to Cultural Survival after working a decade in the customer service industry in Guatemala.
Meet BryanJess Cherofsky, Interim Advocacy Program Manager, builds processes and connections across programs towards the implementation of Cultural Survival's…
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Danielle DeLuca, Senior Development Manager, has been with Cultural Survival since 2009, when she started volunteering from our G
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Shaldon Ferris (Khoisan), Indigenous Rights Radio Coordinator, started out in media by producing music videos.
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Cesar Gomez (Maya Pocomam), Community Media Program Coordinator. Cesar is from Palin, Escquintla, Guatemala.
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Nati Garcia (Maya Mam), Capacity Building Manager, was born in a refugee camp in Campeche, Mexico as her family fled Guatemala in
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Adriana Hernández (Maya K’iche’), Emerging Strategies Coordinator, was born and raised in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
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Natalia Jones, Advocacy Associate, is Spanish and English and was born and raised in Madrid, Spain.
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Mariana Kiimi (Ñuu Sàvi/Mixtec), Advocacy Assistant, is from San Juan Mixtepec in Oaxaca, México.
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Edson Krenak Naknanuk (Krenak), Lead on Brazil, is an Indigenous activist, writer, and a PhD student at Vienna University, Austria, where he develops…
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Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar), Community Media Program Coordinator, comes from Nepal.
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Bia’ni Madsa’ Juárez López (Ayuuk ja’ay and Binnizá), Program Manager for the Keepers of the Earth Fund.
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Jamie Malcolm-Brown, Communications and Information Technology Manager, graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
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Amparo Monzón (Maya K’iche), Program Assistant to the Community Media & Indigenous Rights Radio Programs, was born in Guatemala.
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Roberto De La Cruz Martínez (Binnizá), Information Technology Associate, is from Juchitan, Oaxaca, México, but currently lives in Oaxaca City.
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Kevin Alexander Larrea García, Information Technology Associate, is from Lima, Peru.
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Michael J. Beeler, JD, CFRE, Individual Donor Manager, was born and raised in Southern California.
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Diana Pastor (Maya K'iche'), Media Coordinator, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from San Carlos University in Guatemala.
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Guadalupe Pastrana (Nahua), Indigenous Rights Radio Producer, is originally from the Malacachtepec Momoxco community of Milpa Alta, southeast of…
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Agnes Portalewska, Senior Communications Manager, is originally from Warsaw, Poland.
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Rosy Sul González (Maya Kaqchikel), Indigenous Rights Radio Program Manager, is from the town of Sumpango, Sacatepéquez
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Sócrates Vásquez García (Ayuujk Jääy), Community Media Program Manager, hails from Oaxaca, México, and is a radio journ
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Miranda Vitello, Development Coordinator, processes all donations, manages the membership database, and coordinates the
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Candy Williams, Human Resources Manager, is originally from the Dominican Republic and resides in Alaska, United States.
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Raquel Xiloj (Maya K’iche), Community Media Grants Coordinator, was born and raised in Guatemala.
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Pablo Xol (Maya Qʼeqchiʼ), Design and Marketing Associate, is originally from Guatemala but has been living and working in Panama for the last twelve…
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David Gordon is an independent consultant with a background in strategic philanthropy and environmental grantmaking to support international…
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Chenae Bullock is a Tribal citizen of the Shinnecock Nation and descendant of the Montauk Peoples in Long Island, New York, and is also African…
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Claudio Ramirez Hernandez (Na Ñuu Savi/ Mixtec) was born in Santa Maria, California, a central coast farming community, where many from his family’s…
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Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.