Maya Educational Foundation

Marilyn Moors President	received her MA degree in anthropology from The George Washington University and is professor emerita from Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. She has worked on issues of the historic destruction of self‑sufficient agriculture in the Guatemalan highland in order to produce Maya labor for the coastal plantations. She is the co‑editor of The Maya Diaspora: Guatemalan Faces, New American Lives with James Loucky. A long‑time member, secretary, and supporter of the Guatemala Scholars Network.

Brenda Rosenbaum Vice-President	is the founder of Mayan Hands, an organization that works with Maya weavers' cooperatives. She has a PhD in anthropology from the State University of New York in Albany. She is the author of With Our Heads Bowed: the Dynamics of Gender in a Maya Community.

Elisabeth Nicholson Secretary to the Board	has a master’s degree in English and Spanish from Heidelberg University, Germany and has worked with MEF since its inception as staff and volunteer supporter of the organization. She is MEF’s secretary and assists the board in all matters. She visits and maintains close ties with the projects and does MEF development work.

Christine Eber	holds her PhD in anthropology from SUNY Buffalo and is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Her research has been centered on Tsotsil Maya women in the area of San Pedro Chenalho in Chiapas, Mexico. She assisted them in the formation of a weaving cooperative and is the author of Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town. She also is the coeditor of Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope and co-author with "Antonia" of the forthcoming book, The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico.

Carol Hendrickson	has a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago and is professor of Anthropology at Marlboro College. She has been researching weaving in the central Guatemalan highlands for more than twenty-five years, and her research focuses on ways clothing non-verbally relates cultural meanings and provides insight into local understandings of issues such as ethnicity, gender, class, politics and national identity. She is the author of Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town, and co-author of Tecpán Guatemala: A Modern Maya Town in Global and Local Context.

Robert Greenberg	is professor emeritus from Dartmouth Medical School, Senior Epidemiologist, Cancer Research and Biostatistics (CRAB) and Affiliate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Together with his wife Jane, Bob has created and directed the very successful English Language Program for MEF. For five years now, he has gathered groups of volunteers from the US to travel to Guatemala to teach English to Mayan students for two weeks.

Pablo Chavajay	is associate professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire and has a licenciatura degree from the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala as well as a masters degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has worked extensively with children and mothers in Guatemala and the U.S. in child development projects in school and after school programs. He has been a board member since 2008.

Mitchell Denburg	studied photography at The School of The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. His works are housed in many private collections and photographic archives including Tulane University, and the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA) Photographic Archive, of which Mitchell was the founder. His work has been used to illustrate many articles and journals on development and anthropology, including the book Getting Ahead Collectively by Albert O. Hirschman. His forthcoming book The Portraits of Mitchell Denburg is currently in production. In 1998 together with his wife Elizabeth Habie, Mitchell founded the New Roots Foundation, dedicated to the rescue of young girls at risk and unique and endangered ecosystems in Guatemala.

Catherine Docter	grew up in Palo Alto, California, attended Duke and Yale universities, and presently lives in Antigua, Guatemala and Paris, France. She and her partner, John Heaton, run a design company dealing with traditional crafts and fine arts, including regional crafts, letterset printed books, photography and film. She writes for several travel and art publications. For the past ten years, her consulting company, Mesoamerican Consulting, has offered guidance to more than thirty US non-governmental organizations and foundations, concentrating on how best to structure and deliver their services in Central America and in Africa. She has also given assistance to foundation boards confronting major structural changes and fundraising efforts.

John Farrow	was born in the US; raised and educated in France. Following lycée, he returned to the States to attend the University of Rochester where he studied comparative literature and received his undergraduate and graduate degrees. Since then he has lived on his Vermont farm. His company, Farrow Financial, offers investment and financial management services. During the past 15 years he has worked with businesses and not for profit foundations in Guatemala. For many years he was the treasurer of a Vermont regional mental health agency and currently is a board member of other not for profit organizations in the US. He remains involved with farming in Vermont as well as in Guatemala.