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Board of
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Dr. Scott Pike
President of Board and Corporation since 2005
Founding Board Member
Portland, Oregon
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Dr. Scott Pike is a graduate of Pacific University College of
Optometry. In 2006 he
retired from private practice and is now an assistant professor
at the College.
Scott has
served as a volunteer and member of several local non-profit
organizations. He
started his eye care project in Guatemala
in 1997, and has visited the Ixcán once or twice a year since
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Amanda Terhes worked as program manager for the 13 years
before returning to post-graduate study.
She received her Masters Degree in Applied
Anthropology in 2007.
She has volunteered for fundraising and program
planning activities with multiple area non-profits and is
currently an instructor in the
Business
School at Oregon State
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Amanda
Terhes
Secretary of the Board since 2005
Founding Board Member
Eugene, Oregon
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Cyra Koupal
Board Member since 2010
San Francisco, California
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Cyra Koupal is originally from San Jose, California, and first became passionate
about Latin America while living in Uruguay as a high school exchange student
nearly 15 years ago. Since, Cyra has lived in Guatemala, Chile, Uruguay and
Brazil and holds a Bachelor's degree from Tulane University in Latin American
Studies and Brazilian Studies. Cyra served as a human rights accompanier
in one returned refugee community and conducted monthly visits to six communities
containing witnesses in a legal case against former military dictator General
Romeo Lucas Garcia in the Ixcán region of Guatemala from 2004 to 2005.
Since 2007, Cyra has helped monolingual clients access necessary legal and
social services by serving as a volunteer interpreter in the areas of family,
immigration, bankruptcy and landlord/tenant law. Cyra has also trained new
volunteer interpreters thus lending her expertise to ensure the growth of
volunteer interpreter projects in San Francisco. Currently, she works as
a freelance medical interpreter and is a student in the Spanish/English Legal
Interpretation Program at San Francisco State University and in the Healthcare
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Dr. Debbie
Billings is a researcher on women's health and rights, has
worked throughout Latin America for over 20 years on issues
related to family planning, migration, social justice and
women's organizing. Debbie lived and worked in Guatemala during
the early 1990s working with women's weaving cooperatives
and then moved to Chiapas, Mexico where she conducted
workshops with refugee women about their health. She also
conducted life histories and wrote her PhD dissertation
about women's organizing in exile. She, her husband and son
currently live in Columbia, South Carolina.
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Dr.
Debbie Billings
Board Member 2008
Columbia, South Carolina
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Dwight Fleck
Treasurer of the Board since 2005
Founding Board Member
Fort Worth, Texas
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Dwight Fleck has been employed in risk
management for over 37 years as an analyst, manager and
consultant. He has also served as a leader in a boys camping
based program for over 20 years. For over 15 years he served as
Treasurer and member of the Board of two churches.
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Council of Electors
J. Eric Anderson
Ali Durbin
Suzanne McCann
Maureen L. McCrae
James Harrison Pike II
Ronald Craig Stout
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