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.
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.
Iakowi:he’ne’ Oakes.
Iakowi:he'ne' Oakes is a 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. Her experience and intentions are focused on Nation building, maintaining and strengthening sovereignty; stewardship, economic development, social justice, culture and the arts.
Abou Farman.
Farman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. Professor Farman is interested in secularization processes, especially in relation to post-humanism, technology and aesthetics. His previous ethnographic research focused on transhumanist projects in the US attempting to achieve immortality through cryonics, mind uploading and biogerentology.
He is now working alongside the Shipibo Conibo Xetebo organizations on projects of indigenous autonomy in the Peruvian Amazon.
Cievel Xicohténcatl.
Cievel is a cultural organizer, and interdisciplinary artist that lives and works in New York. She's experienced in cultural production as an arts administrator and educator working at the intersection of socially engaged art, public programming and cultural organizing.
Staff
Marco Castillo. Interim Executive Director. Puebla, Mexico.
Susan Kingsland. Deputy Director of Social Services. New York, NY.
Alejandra Tentle. Volunteer Administrative Coordinator. Mexico City, Mexico
Yogui Ariza, Case Manager. Puebla, Mexico.
Berenice Santiago, Community Health Coordinator. Puebla, México
Esteban Estevez, South Bronx Community Liason. Puebla, Mexico.
Gricelda Rojas. Outreach. Guatemala
Zenaida Simón. Outreach. Guerrero, Mexico
Maria Elena Escamilla. Outreach. Guerrero, Mexico
Luis Angel Gallegos. Mexico Research and organizing coordinator. Oaxaca, México
Advisors
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.
Javier Rodríguez
Berenice Santiago
Yogui Ariza