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Hannah & Dan Egan |
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Please help us welcome our new representatives, Hannah and Dan. They are now living in the Jalapa Valley.
Daniel Egan grew up in Long Island, NY. In 1998, Dan joined Americorps, teaching environmental education and working on trails projects in the Adirondacks.
In the years that followed, Dan continued this work with various non-profit groups, leading volunteers into the wilderness to build and maintain trails,
inspiring people and teaching skills for conservation work nationwide. Dan volunteered with the American Red Cross in the Mississippi Delta after Katrina,
delivering food and aid to hurricane victims, and took a Union carpentry job that landed him in Boulder in late 2005. Dan has lived in Boulder on and off since 2003.
Hannah Palmer Egan is from VT, where she grew up growing vegetables and raising livestock. Between 2001 and 2003, she worked seasonally in New Hampshire for the
Appalachian Mountain Club's Hut system, learning and educating guests about alternative energy systems and wilderness conservation.
Hannah graduated from Colorado College in 2006 with a B.A. in Political Science. During college, she taught ESL in elementary schools, and interned at the
Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, doing grassroots organizing, fundraising, and event planning.
Dan and Hannah met in 2006 married in August, 2007; they moved to Boulder in early 2007. Until they moved to Jalapa, Dan worked as a carpenter.
He was a member of the Boulder Green Building Guild and remains passionate about alternative building techniques and historical preservation work.
Hannah was a legal assistant at an immigration law office, where served a predominantly Latino client base.
Dan and Hannah enjoy living in Nicaragua and are excited to see what good work they can do with the people there.
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Karla Pozo |
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Meet Karla Mariela Pozo Hererra
Karla Pozo began working with Pueblos Unidos/FCP in 2005, as a volunteer in the Pilot Huertos Familiares (Family Gardens) project in El Polvorin.
In 2007, she began her first formal work contract, to extend the project into two more communities, and apply it in primary schools, hoping to bring nutritional security to
Jalapa. She has had a great experience working with the Women's Foundation of Jalapa, focused on organizing women toward the prevention and treatment of Cervical
and Uterine Cancers.
Through her work with FCP, she has been trained in the methodology of Campesino a Campesino, organic agriculture, including creating natural fertilizers
and pest-control strategies, and soil and water conservation. She also has formal training in community organizing, and has a diverse skill-set for working with
people toward improving their lives using only their own resources.
Karla is taking courses in Jalapa to further amplify her knowledge base, including accounting, applied math (statistics), and various agriculture courses.
Her expectation is to share this information with the people she works with, and in this way she will be guaranteeing that the knowledge has no end, as it will
continue penetrating new minds and creating new understanding for each person it reaches.
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 from 1998 to 99 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 and the promotion of FAIR trade. She is also a vocal musician, artist and baker.
Tamara is very proud of her time in Nicaragua representing the Boulder-Jalapa Friendship City Projects!
Former Volunteers have included:
Brendan Shea
Gregory Bowles
Heidi Reukauf
Dennis and Betsy Duckett
Amy Sattler
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