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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 is the co-director of the Close to the Customer Project at Oregon State University. In her efforts with OSU she works with students to conduct qualitative and quantitative research for external clients. While pursuing her Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology, Amanda worked with Enfoque Ixcán as an intern and focused her thesis work on the organization. Amanda and her husband, John, live in Eugene, Oregon with their two children and two cats. < |
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, holds a Bachelor's degree from Tulane University in Latin American Studies and Brazilian Studies and is a graduate of the Healthcare Interpreter Program at City College of San Francisco. 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. |
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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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Dr. Brian Arvidson graduated from Pacific University College of Optometry and completed a residency at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He has served as adjunct faculty at Pacific University, an attending physician at the Portland VAMC and has a full-time practice at Bend Memorial Clinic. Brian has traveled throughout Central and South America during undergraduate school and has been a member of the Enfoque Ixcán medical team since 2005. His wife and two sons enthusiastically support his medical mission endeavors and hope to travel with him one day.
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Dr. Brian Arvidson
Board Member Since 2010
Bend, Oregon
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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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