Safe Passage embodies our values of representative leadership, with a majority-woman Board of Directors, Guatemalan leaders as Chair and Vice President of the Board, 8/18 Guatemalan members, and 8/18 members currently living in Guatemala. Coupled with a staff Leadership Team that is 80% Guatemalan and internal processes and structures that center local leadership, power, and expertise– Safe Passage lives our commitment to model what we know our students are capable of: growing into their own powerful leadership to change their communities and country for the better.
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Chair: Santiago Bolaños Torrebiarte (Guatemala)
Vice President: Camila Leal Witt (New York, NY & Guatemala)
Secretary: Sara Danish (Guatemala)
Treasurer: Matthew Bucher (Hamel, MN)
Ana Cristina Rozas-Botrán (Guatemala)
Sofía Arimany (Guatemala and New York, NY)
Carla Campbell (Philadelphia, PA)
Esther Brol (Guatemala)
Jeff Katz (Cambridge, MA)
Marcos Zedan (New York, NY)
Matthew Verghese (San Francisco, CA)
René J. Nazario (Atlanta, GA)
Sara Bellenda (London, United Kingdom)
Donald Francis (Guatemala)
Ariana Spiliotes (Switzerland)
Jenn McAdoo (Yarmouth, Maine)
Ayleen Mini (Guatemala)
Karla Anguiano (Guatemala and Berlin, Germany)
