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Hannah & Dan Egan

Please help us welcome our new representatives, Hannah and Dan. They will be headed down to the Jalapa Valley in September of 2008.

Daniel Egan grew up in Long Island, NY. In 1998, Dan spent time in the Adirondacks doing wilderness conservation and trails projects through Americorps. Throughout his career, Dan shared and developed these skills across America as a Volunteer Crew Leader in the Trails Community. During this time, Dan lead groups of volunteers into the wilderness to build and maintain trails, working to conserve many of America's special places, and inspiring interest and teaching skills to promote conservation work nationwide. In 2005 Dan volunteered in the Mississippi Delta during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, delivering food and aid to hurricane victims with the American Red Cross.

Hannah Palmer Egan grew up in rural VT. In 2002, she volunteered on organic farms in Italy, broadening her already strong gardening skills and learning the basics of permaculture theory and design. From 2001 to 2004 she worked seasonally in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for the Appalachian Mountain Club's Hut system. There she learned and educated guests about alternative energy resources, alpine ecosystems and wilderness conservation. Hannah graduated from Colorado College in 2006 with a B.A. in Political Science. During her time at CC she taught ESL to elementary school students and worked with Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, doing grassroots organizing, fundraising, and event planning.

Dan and Hannah met in January of 2006. After a brief separation that spring, the couple reunited at conservation ranch in Montana where they lived and worked at the outskirts of Yellowstone National Park, she working in the vast organic garden, and he maintaining buildings around the ranch. Dan and Hannah married in August of 2007 and currently live in Boulder, CO. Dan works as a carpenter, is a member of the Boulder Green Building Guild and is passionate about alternative building techniques and historical preservation work. Hannah works as legal assistant at a small immigration law office, where she works on behalf of a mostly Latino client base. Dan and Hannah are both thrilled to head to Nicaragua and honored to be part of a well organized, progressive and empowering program.

Tamara Czyzyk was FCP's representative from 2005 to 2007.

Tamara Czyzyk has been a community organizer for the last decade. With a specialty in popular education and a passion for justice, she worked for several years in Boston around immigrants' and tenants' rights and the development of cooperative homeownership opportunities for low-income folks. In New Orleans, she worked with members of "high risk" communities to assist them in creating their own alternative ways to promote sexual health and bring down the soaring rate of HIV in our city. Throughout the state of Louisiana, Tamara worked with once silent mothers of incarcerated children to reverse the insidious trend of a booming private prison industry, deteriorating and under-funded public schools, and the mass incarceration of children and young people of color. They shut down a notoriously brutal juvenile prison and provoked drastic reforms of an entire juvenile justice system. Most recently, she worked with former "Freedom Fighters" in a rural town on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi Delta in an unprecedented struggle to successfully convert a private prison into a public region-wide educational center and community college. Tamara lived in Matagalpa, Nicaragua 7 years ago when she volunteered with a local women's collective that uses popular education to assist rural women in developing the skills, resources, information and support necessary to create and sustain successful, independent working cooperatives. She is also a vocal musician, artist and baker. Tamara is thrilled to return to Nicaragua to represent the Boulder-Jalapa Friendship City Project!

She has worked throughout the US around issues of immigrants; rights and affordable housing, public health and HIV prevention, anti-racism and prison reform, and community empowerment and self-determination. Tamara lived and volunteered in Nicaragua in 1998-99, supporting the creation and maintenance of independent working cooperatives and the promotion of FAIR trade. She is also a vocal musician, artist and baker, who comes to us from New Orleans. Tamara is thrilled to return to Nicaragua to represent the Boulder-Jalapa Friendship City Project!



Former Volunteers have included:
Brendan Shea
Gregory Bowles
Heidi Reukauf
Dennis and Betsy Duckett
Amy Sattler