The Andes to Amazon
Staff:
Paul Treadwell: director and co-founder. Paul
graduated from Yale University with a double B.A. in Spanish and
Humanities. He spent a year abroad in Spain, and has travelled
extensively in Bolivia. Pablo is currently teaching spanish at the
Robert Louis Stevenson school in Santa Barbara, California.
Basically, he is the heart and soul of Andes to Amazon.
Anna Aliaga: co-founder and Bolivian coordinator. Anna
received her B.A. from Princton University and a B.S. in Nursing from
the University of San Francisco. Anna has travelled extensively, has
lived in Bolivia for the past seven years, and is very tolerant of
the rest of the staff. She and her husband Carlos have two children,
Eduardo and Heladio.
Elizabeth Siles Salas: language instructor. Profesora Salas
graduated with a B.A. in English literature from the Universidad de
Frances Normal Catolica, in her hometown of Cochabamba
Kathryn Ledebur: history and culture instructor. Kathy is a
graduate of Oberlin College and studied Andean history at FLACSO, the
Latin American Faculty of social sciences in Quito. In addition to
her efforts with the Andean Information Network she works for the
Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute as part of the editorial
committee for their soon to be published collection on Drugs and
Democracy in Latin American. She is also currently researching the
negative impacts of the United States' Air Bridge Denial program on
South American Democracies. As a member of the Andean Information
Network, she participates in the Political Solidarity Committee,
translates publications, communications, and updates, and
participates in the preparation of selected reports and projects.
Carlos
Aliaga: special projects. Carlos is originally from
the city of La Paz, and graduated from the University of Wyoming,
with a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering. Mr. Aliaga Uria also holds
an Academician Diploma from the International Informatizational
Academy of Geneva, and has been Chaiman of the Bolivian branch of the
academy since October, 1997.
Lee Cridland: Community Service Coordinator. Lee managed to
escape the Frozen Wasteland of Upstate New York for the Promised Land
of San Francisco. She has been living and working in Cochabamba for
the last four years. In addition to coordinating Andes to Amazon
service projects, Lee knows many interesting facts.
Nur
Ritter: co-founder, and staff botanist. Nur is currently
pursuing a doctorate at the University of New Hampshire. He and his
wife, Martha, lived in Bolivia for three years, where they conducted
research, and watched more bad American action movies than they ever
imagined existed.. He is the responsible party for this website.Click
here to view
some of his shirts.
Many other people participate, or have participated, in Andes to
Amazon. As this website develops, we hope to be able to expand this
page to include them.