Leadership
Community assembly
La Red de Pueblos designs and implements its plans and programs through a permanent Community Assembly formed by over 40 community members and leaders that meet on a weekly basis and through which an annual planning and an annual evaluation is conducted.
This Assembly is divided in four care committees: Community Care of Health, Community Care of Culture, Community Care of Individuals and Community Care of the Community.
Community leadership Board
Marco Castillo. Puebla/Tlaxcala. Board President. Co-Executive Director, Global Exchange.
Marco has worked as facilitator, mediator, interpreter, organizer and advocate with rural and indigenous immigrant communities in Mexico, US and Central America for over 21 years.
Esteban Estevez. Mixtec from Teopantlán, Puebla. Business owner, media producer, cultural organizer and father.
Javier Rodríguez. Tetlanohcan, Tlaxcala. Carnaval lover, advocate and organizer.
Berenice Santiago. nahua from San Pedro Benito Juárez, Puebla. An advocate, organizer and mother.
Yogui Ariza, from Epatlán, Puebla. Advocate, organizer and mother of 4.
Staff
Marco Castillo. Interim Executive Director
Susan Kingsland. Deputy Director of Social Services
Alejandra Tentle. Volunteer Administrative Coordinator
Gricelda Rojas. Outreach
Zenaida Simón. Outreach
Maria Elena Escamilla. Outreach
Luis Angel Gallegos. Mexico Research and organizing coordinator. Oaxaca, México
board of Advisors
Iakowi:he’ne’ Oakes. E.D Norte American indigenous Center of New York. Kanien:ke’ha’/Mohawk woman, mother, cultural curator, leader, advocate, producer, coach, artist, designer and athlete. She was born and raised in Akwesasne Mohawk Territory, a reservation that straddles the border of New York, Ontario and Quebec.
Lisa Castellanos.Lisa is a 2nd generation Xikana born and raised in California by way of Jalisco, Nayarit and the Arizona Sonora desert. She has over 30 years of community experience, working with families and communities who have faced marginalization, state impunity and discrimination. Lisa was trained in community organizing through the Center for Third World Organizing’s (CTWO) Minority Activist Apprenticeship in the late 1980's, having been politicized by her mother's activism as a unionized cannery worker and inspired by the liberation struggles of Nicaragua and El Salvador as a teenager . Lisa resides in Scottsdale, Arizona with her son and dog, Sol.
Antonia Zamora. Nahua-tlaxcalteca, bisexual, community feminist, popular educator, daughter of a curator mother and a peasant father. Diploma as an Expert in Indigenous Peoples, human rights and international cooperation from the Carlos III University of Madrid. She completed the Master's program in Women's Studies at the UAM-Xochimilco, with a degree in Psychology from the BUAP. Diploma in Leadership of Indigenous Women from UNAM and graduate of the Global School of Indigenous Women of the International Forum of Indigenous Women.
Founders
Esteban Estevez. Co-founder. Nahuatl migrant, businessman, community leader and organizer. We has been living and working in New York for over 20 years.
Myrna Lazcano. Co-founder. Migrant from Tepeaca, Puebla, Myrna is a champion of family reunification and immigrant rights advocacy. She was separated form her two daughters for over three years and after a long battle she was able to be let back in the US.
Esthela Plata. Co-Founder. Social Worker from Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Esthela is a strong activist for immigrant rights and social justice for all people from Latin America.