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David Slaymaker   

President

 

Dave has been traveling to Oaxaca for 

20 years and has had a long term interest in Mexican culture and charitable work.  He began working as a volunteer with Oaxaca Streetchildren Grassroots in 1997.  In 2006 he became the Secretary of the U.S. Board. In November 2010 he became President of the U.S. Board.  Dave lives in Arkansas and is an administrator in the University of Arkansas System.

 

Marilyn Horn           

Vice President


Marilyn has been involved with Oaxaca Streetchildren Grassroots since 2000 as a sponsor and a frequent visitor and volunteer. She is a recently retired Spanish teacher who led several student groups to Oaxaca and introduced them to the CEI. She is currently teaching Spanish in her local Adult Ed. program. She lives in Durham, CT.

 

Kathy Smith-Wenning       

Secretary


Kathy has been travelling to Mexico for nearly two decades; her love affair with Oaxaca started 10 years ago and persists. In August 2008 Kathy brought students from Monmouth University to Oaxaca Streetchildren for the culmination of a volunteer project which began in Long Branch, NJ tutoring English for Oaxaca's immigrant community. Kathy’s career path shifts between teaching and working in medical anthropology and respiratory therapy. Kathy lives in Long Branch, NJ.
Donna Born
Voting Board Member

Melanie Cervenka       

Voting Board Member

 Melanie Cervenka became acquainted with OSCGR in 2008 while studying Spanish in Oaxaca. A native Texan and former banker, she now lives with her husband and two naughty pugs in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. In addition to her work with OSCGR, she is an enthusiastic grandmother, an aspiring novelist, an American Red Cross Disaster Worker, and an avid traveler. 
Alice Kupcik
Voting Board Member

Emily Rubin             

Voting Board Member & Marketing Committee Chair


Emily has been a Oaxaca Streetchildren Grassroots sponsor since her second visit to Oaxaca in 1996.  She is  a social worker who currently works for a housing advocacy organization, and she lives in New York City. Previously she worked in a number of marketing and promotions positions. and brings her expertise to her position as Marketing Committee Chair on the board. She continues to travel as often as possible to Oaxaca.

Teri Schwartz          

Voting Board Member


Teri Schwartz was introduced to the Oaxaca Streetchildren School in 2007.  She lives in Denver, Colorado where for the last 25 years she has run an organizational consulting business, Schwartz & Associates.  Her firm specializes in leadership, culture change, executive coaching, team building and meeting facilitation.  She and her associates teach a class entitled, Facilitative Leadership.  Thousands of individuals around the world have participated in this class. Her clients range from Fortune 500 to non-profits and schools.


She has also done a great deal over the years with children from starting a preschool to starting a leadership institute serving underserved, low economic kids in Denver, Co.  She also serves on the board of Capital Friends, an organization which focuses on alleviating poverty through microcredit for women in developing countries.

John Tyler
Voting Board Member


A Spanish teacher with a Doctorate in Multicultural Education, John discovered Oaxaca Streetchildren Grassroots in 2005 while studying language and culture in Oaxaca.  He is the current President of the local Lions Club in Groton, Massachusetts where he lives.  He has represented his club on trips to Oaxaca with eyeglass donations for the Lions Club there each summer when visiting to volunteer at the Centro de Esperanza.











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