AFC+A CORE STAFF
USA BASED

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Andres Better Longo

Youth Outreach & Mycellium Education Coordinator

(USA & Ecuador)

AmeriCorps Vista 

(Volunteer In Service To America)

Jonathan Cintron

Director of Operations &

Puerto Rico Chief Programs Officer

(Puerto Rico)

cintron@americasforconservation.org 

Dr. Robert Mandel

Publisher, Mandel Vilar Press

(USA)

robert@mandelvilar.org 

Zuza Bohley

AFC+A Education Director &

Deputy Director USA

(Germany)

zuza@americasforconservation.org

Beverly Castañeda

Outreach Coordinator

AmeriCorps Vista 

(Volunteer In Service To America)

beverly@americasforconservation.org

Maru García

Development Coordinator

AmeriCorps Vista 

(Volunteer In Service To America)

(México)

Armando González

Marketing Director

(Venezuela)

Sydney Molinet

Programs Coordinator

(USA)

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Alsonso 'Piloto' Nieves

AFC+A Artivism Educator

(Mexico)

Fernando Pineda

AFC+A Co Director

(Mexico)

fernando@crearesults.org

Irene Vilar

AFC+A Founder & CEO

(Puerto Rico)

irene@americasforconservation.org

Ana Sánchez

AFC+A Development

(Puerto Rico)

annie@americasforconservation.org

Interns

Kurt Maslar is an intern for Promotores Verdes and the Mycelium Healing Project.

Tyler Zimmermann is Promotores Verdes and Mycelium Healing Project Intern with Americas for Conservation + the Arts.

AFC+A Board of Directors

Puerto Rico 

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Roxana Balzac 

OFFICER

(Puerto Rico)

Graciela Eleta

OFFICER

(Puerto Rico)

David Roman

Officer

(Puerto Rico)

Jonathan Cintrón

SECRETARY

(Puerto Rico)

cintron@americasforconservation.org 

Fernando Pineda

VICE PRESIDENT

(Mexico)

fernando@crearesults.org

Irene Vilar

PRESIDENT

(Puerto Rico)

irene@americasforconservation.org

AFC+A STAFF

Puerto Rico 

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Malcom Ferrer

AFC+A Puerto Rico Artivism Educator

(Puerto Rico)

Malcomferrer@gmail.com

Ana Gonzalez Caban

FELA Production & Community Engagement

(Puerto Rico)

ana.l.gonzalez.caban@gmail.com

Andrea Galvis Nazario

Programs & Cultural Heritage Management 

(Puerto Rico)

andrea.e.galvis@gmail.com

Ana Sánchez

AFC+A Public Relations

(Puerto Rico)

ana@americasforconservation.org

AFC+A STAFF

México 

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Juan Guadalupe

AFC+A Mexico Agro-Ecology Educator

(Mexico)

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Don Agustin Pineda

AFC+A Mexico Education & Ecology

(Mexico)

agropecuariaDospuertas@hotmail.com

AFC+A

Hermanas del Río/

River Sisters 

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Nita Gonzáles

River Sisters Coordinator

(USA)

nita@americasforconservation.org

Paul Cawood Hellmund

El Laboratorio

Principal

(Panamá)

paul@americasforconservation.org

Arq. Nancy A. Saldaña

El Laboratorio

Principal

(México)

nancy@americasforconservation.org

AFC+A

Collaborators

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Dana Coelho

Youth + Community Engagement Catalyst

(USA)

German Gonzalez

Community Outreach

Spanish Media Director

(Mexico)

Ana Trujillo

AFC+A Puerto Rico Programs Coordinator

(Venezuela)

anaanatrujillo2002@yahoo.com