CULTURAL SURVIVAL STAFF
Jamie Brown is Cultural Survival’s Graphic Design and Information Technology Specialist. Jamie graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a degree in anthropology. Before coming to Cultural Survival, he helped establish a computer lab at The Charles J. Andrew Youth Treatment Centre in Sheshatshiu Labrador, Canada. He has since conducted similar work in Kenya with the Maasai Education Discovery.
Mark Camp is Cultural Survival’s Director of Operations. From 1993 to 1998, Mark ran Joint Effort, a small fair trade company that imported crafts from Maya cooperatives in Guatemala. He came to Cultural Survival in 1998 and served as Membership Coordinator and Editor of Cultural Survival Voices before assuming his current duties in 2004.
Mark Cherrington is Cultural Survival’s Director of Publications. He has been a magazine editor and publications specialist for nonprofit organizations for 25 years, including work at Amherst College and 18 years with the Earthwatch Institute. He has written or contributed to several books on environmental and social issues, and his writing and photography have appeared in many major magazines, including Discover, Time, Audubon, and Vogue. He has also lectured on environmental issues at universities across America and on national radio and television programs. For a number of years he worked as a professional musician all over the United States and overseas. He joined Cultural Survival’s staff at the beginning of 2006.
David Michael Favreau is Cultural Survival's Events and Membership Associate. He also works on media relations, sponsorships, and advertising for the Cultural Survival Quarterly. In 2002, he graduated from Framingham State College with a BA in sociology, concentrating on cultural anthropology, and a minor in Creative Writing/Communications.
Sofia Flynn is Cultural Survival’s Financial Officer. Sofia is originally from Cali, Colombia, and worked in international banking in Venezuela for 10 years before moving to the United States. Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, she has worked at Cultural Survival since 1989.
Jason Haven is Cultural Survival's Donor and Volunteer Relations Officer. Originally from rural Texas, he served in the U.S. Army for over four years and was stationed in Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Haiti, Somalia, China, Korea, and Germany. After being honorably discharged Jason graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with degrees in Philosophy and Art History. Following a string of successes in commercial enterprizes, Jason decided to dedicate his professional careers to human rights work in 2002.
Ellen L. Lutz, Executive Director, has been working in the international human rights field for over 25 years. Prior to joining Cultural Survival she ran the Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution and taught courses in international human rights law, international criminal law, and other international law subjects at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. From 1989 to 1994, she served as the California Director for Human Rights Watch and as HRW’s principal researcher on Mexico. She has written widely on human rights and conflict resolution, international and transnational accountability for human rights violations, and on themes relating to human rights in Latin America. Ellen received her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985, and her master’s in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in 1978.
Cesar Gomez Moscut (Mom), Guatemala Radio Project Coordinator, started working with the GRP as a volunteer and was hired as Production Coordinator in March, 2007. He is a bilingual (Pokomam Mayan and Spanish) student in communications at the University of San Carlos, Guatemala. Gomez previously served as the office manager for the Consejo Guatemalteco de Comunicacion Comunitaria, the umbrella organization for the community radio stations and their four associations.
Agnes Portalewska, a Cultural Survival Program Officer, runs the indigenous artisan bazaar program, is the organizer of outreach events and advocacy initiatives, and works on the Guatemala Radio Project. Agnes is from Warsaw, Poland. She studied anthropology, Latin American studies, photography, and media production at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and is currently finishing her graduate studies in Sustainable International Development at Brandeis University. She has traveled extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean, researched indigenous media, and taught photography workshops to children.
Jennifer Weston (Lakota) is Cultural Survival's Endangered Languages Campaign Coordinator. Jennifer grew up on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the Dakotas, and has served her tribal government as environmental outreach coordinator, grant writer, and executive assistant to the tribal chairman's office, where she coordinated reservation-wide get out the vote efforts for the 2000 elections. As a student and employee at Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Jennifer worked to develop American Indian studies curricula and programs to support Native American student retention. She helped to found Brown's annual spring powwow, now in its eighth year, and the Ivy Native Council, an intercollegiate group founded to promote American Indian studies curricula and Native student leadership throughout the Northeast. A second-language learner of the Lakota language, she is currently studying the Hunkpapa and Sicangu dialects with the assistance of many patient relatives and curricula developed by various Lakota communities and tribal colleges.