WCE Volunteer eWaste Researchers

WCE Volunteer eWaste Researchers (19)

10 of the 19 volunteer WCE eWaste Researchers are native Spanish speakers from Argentina, Colombia (2), El Salvador, Mexico (4), Peru, Spain, and Venezuela.

Please look at this Flyer is you are interested in volunteering to do online research to help develop this e-waste tool kit. Flyer in Spanish .

Name: Amos Becker Batto
Residence: Perú
Citizenship: USA
Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese, Quechua
Profile: Cofounder of Runasimipi Qespisqa Software (www.runasimipi.org), a project to create Free Software in Quechua (an indigenous language in the Andes). Currently living in Abancay, Perú, but originally hails from Greencastle, Indiana. Has traveled through 20 Latin American countries and volunteered on computer projects in Sucre, Bolivia Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. In addition to having worked in homeless shelters in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and Austin Texas - Amos has also worked as a microprocessor programmer in Colorado Springs, Colorado and has a BA in History from Grinnell College in Massachusetts in Latin American History, and also attended Indiana University-Bloomington.

Name: Marcos Benitez
Residence: USA
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, Spanish, some French
Profile: Marcos has a degree in Computer Studies and a MBA with concentration in finance. Currently works for Hewlett-Packard as a system analysts. Interests focus on technology and finance. Marcos will be assisting with the Ewaste Tookit. He also volunteers with Doctors for Global Health (DGH), assisting with Web site maintenance and fund raising activities.

Name: Luis Castro
Residence: UK
Citizenship: México
Languages: Spanish, English, Italian
Profile: Luis is a native of Mexico. Luis is currently working as an IT Project Manager in London. Luis and Jack O'Donnell are discussing how he can contribute to our initiative.

Name: Carmen Chapin
Residence: USA and El Salvador
Citizenship: El Salvador and USA
Languages: Spanish, English
Profile: Carmen is a native of El Salvador who has been a librarian for the Washington Post newspaper. Carmen is the WCE Programme Officer for El Salvador and has helped with translating materials for this initiative and for the tool kit.

Name: Manuel Gerardo Chávez Angeles
Residence: México
Citizenship: México
Languages: Spanish, English, French
Profile: Currently working at México's Secretary of Social Development (SEDESOL); also a research fellow at Fundacion IDEA, a public policy think tank. He has worked with at Center for International Development at Harvard University and the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, on impact evaluation of health of rural development programs. He holds a bachelors degree in economics and international relations and a master in public administration and international development from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Name: Emily Earle
Residence: USA
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English
Profile: Emily is from New York and has a degree in history and environmental studies. She studied abroad in Madagascar through the School for International Training. Emily works for a nonprofit and works on environmental policy issues. She collaborates with staff to research and write grant proposals, reports, letters of interest to foundations and government. Currently Emily and Jack O'Donnell are discussing her role in research on the initiative.

Name: Ana Garzon
Residence: USA
Citizenship: Colombia
Languages: Spanish, English, French
Profile: Ana is a native of Colombia and is currently a student at the University of Washington working on a Masters in Public Administration. As a part of a class she completed a website on e-waste that includes an interview with Eric William, an expert in the area of global e-waste. She has agreed to allow us to use the site in the tool kit http://students.washington.edu/agarzon/537/

Name: Tass Gioia
Residence: USA
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English
Profile: Volunteers as the website support tech for the WCE eWaste initiative. Full time IT & AD manager for one of the east coast’s largest consumer electronics distributors. VP of a clothing design & manufacturing company. Former electronics company owner for 14 years. Specialist in interplanetary studies & earthquakes. Happily married with two children.

Name: Gustavo Gonzales
Residence: Spain
Citizenship: Venezuelan
Languages: Spanish, English
Profile: Gustavo is a native Venezuelan who is currently living in Spain. He has background in business administration. He has worked in Venezuela in the hydroelectric industry. Gustavo is putting together a document with links that will be a "how to" manual for simple repairs that a computer owner can make to prolong the lifespan of their equipment.

Name: Verónica Guerra Guerra
Residence: Spain
Citizenship: Spain
Languages: Spanish, English
Profile:Veronica is from Cadiz,Spain. Her educational training is in biology with a emphasis in zoology. She has worked as an Environmental Consultant and Environmental Educator. As a WCE researcher she is identifying sites in Spanish that provide content on the ewaste issue. These sites will be used as a resource by LAC teachers who are developing lesson plans

Name: Alicia Holliday
Residence: United Kingdom
Citizenship: Argentinian and British
Languages: Spanish, English, some French
Profile: Born and educated in Argentina, where I qualified with a degree in English-Spanish-English legal translation. Worked and taught in Argentina before traveling to the UK in 1977 where I married some years later. Since 1983 I have been working full-time as a freelance translator. Over the last few years I have been assisting as a volunteer with the UN Online Volunteering Service through which I applied to help World Computer Exchange with the Spanish side of their research.

Name: Kathryn McFarland
Residence: New Zealand
Citizenship: New Zealand
Languages: English, Spanish, some German, some French, some Portuguese
Profile: Volunteers as a researcher for the E-waste toolkit. Works as a freelance translator and interpreter and teaches English to groups of international students. Holds an degree in Translating and Interpreting from the University of Salamanca, Spain. Has a strong interest in environmental issues, especially waste management. Also works as a volunteer in Department of Conservation (NZ) projects involving re-vegetation and park maintenance.

Name: Chibuzo Governor Nwachukwu
Residence: Nigeria
Citizenship: Nigerian
Languages: English, Kirike
Profile: Chibuzo is a student at Rivers State College of Education in Nigeria. Area Coordinator for Pathfinder Club in Port Harcourt. Member of Development Partnership International. He is founder of egroup called Nigerian Youth Movement. Was summit manager for Nigerian Youth Leadership Summit in Port Harcourt. Facilitator for Nigerian Young Greens. Chibuzo is Jack's researcher for all special projects and to find initial leads for other researchers.

Name: Jack ODonnell
Residence: USA
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, some Spanish
Profile: Volunteers as the Manager of eWaste Initiatives and Regional Manager for Latin America for World Computer Exchange. Retired high school science teacher and former technology/curriculum specialist (Consolidated HS District 230 of Illinois), co-founder BAPA Environment Committee, VP St. Barnabas School Board, county park naturalist, Youth Director St. Barnabas Teen Group, Environmental Educator Youth Conservation Corps Program, BA Theology, Lewis University, MA in Ecology Governors State University, MS in Environmental Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Name: Laura Ospina
Residence: Canada
Citizenship: Colombia Canada
Languages: Spanish, English, French
Profile: Laura is a native of Colombia living in Ottawa, Canada. Laura is the WCE Programme Officer for Colombia and the WCE Ottawa Coordinator. Laura has completed the annotated bibliography of e-waste Internet sites in Spanish.

Name: Shawn Samborsky
Residence: Canada
Citizenship: Canadian
Languages: English
Profile: Shawn is Canadian and is a graduate of a B.Sc. Environmental Management Program. He also holds a diploma in Chemical Technology. For the last 11 years he has worked in the environmental industry. Shawn is currently a Environmental Project Manager. His current work includes soil remediation projects in connection with the include oil and gas, transportation, construction, and manufacturing industries. Currently, Shawn and Jack O'Donnell are discussing his role in research on the initiative.

Name: Maria Paula Mahilum Tapay
Residence: Philipines
Citizenship: Filipino
Languages: English, Filipino
Profile: Paula is student in Manila, Philippines. Paula has completed her BS in Management Information Systems and is working on a BS in Environmental Science. Paula is researching strategies for extending computer life for the toolkit including preventative maintenance, upgrading, diagnosis and repair.

Name: Roxana N. Vilchis-Bustillo
Residence: USA
Citizenship: México, Spain
Languages: Spanish, French, English, some Arabic
Profile: I am a person that is always driven by new challenges. I have previous experience in petroleum exploration, reservoir characterization, and field management. Throughout my past international volunteer experiences I have gained valuable communication and interpersonal skills.

Name: Mike Yoo
Residence: USA
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, some Korean
Profile: Volunteers as a Researcher of the WCE eWaste Initiative and a member of the Technology Committee for World Computer Exchange. Works as an Information Security Auditor for KPMG LLP for various government clients. MS in Information Security from Johns Hopkins University, BS in IT and Finance from the University of Maryland.