page updated: 15 january 2009

Cabeceras Aid Project has a board of ten directors. Each director serves a three-year term. Current directors and officers (and their terms) are listed below, by office then by seniority alphabetically:

· Lev Michael President (October 1996–1999; October 1999–January 2003; January 2003–2006; January 2006–2009)

· Robin Gerrow Vice President (October 2003–January 2007; 2007–2010)

· Christine Beier Secretary and Treasurer (1996–1999; 1999–2003; 2003–2006; 2006–2009)

· Carol Fox (1996–1999; 1999–2003; 2003–2006; 2006–2009)

· Margo Minogue Heyl (1996–1999; 1999–2003; 2003–2006; 2006–2009)

· Roahn Wynar (1996–1999; 1999–2003; 2003–2006; 2006–2009)

· Anthony Woodbury (2002–2005; 2005–2008; 2008–2011)

· Joel Dippold (2006–2009)

· Cynthia Anderson Hansen (2006–2009)

· Linda Young (2006–2009)

· Amanda King (candidate in January 2009)

Board members' and candidates' statements of interest

· Christine Beier (El Cerrito, CA) "As a fieldworker for Cabeceras, I have seen again and again first-hand how effective and well-received Cabeceras' aid projects are in the communities we serve. As an anthropologist and a linguist, as well as a humanitarian and a co-founder of Cabeceras, I feel that I am an excellent candidate to continue carrying out Cabeceras' goals, especially as the organization continues to grow in its service to Amazonian communities."

· Joel Dippold (Portland, OR) "I have known Chris and Lev since about 1990, when Chris and I were two-thirds of the staff of a newspaper devoted to progressive politics here in Oregon. I've watched with awe and envy what she and Lev have done in the Amazon Basin--they're doing the kind of work I dreamed of doing when I was in the Peace Corps (Ghana, 1985–87). I am proud to have been asked to join them in this work. I hope my background in communications and my experience with marketing and fundraising can benefit Cabeceras now, as well as in the not-too-distant, post-dissertation future."

· Carol Fox (Austin, TX) "I have a deep and abiding interest in the Amazon and its peoples, and in particular those places where I have traveled. As for contributions (other than unqualified support for the work of Cabeceras), I would like to try my hand at rounding up a few people that may be willing to provide some modest financial support."

· Robin Gerrow (Austin, TX)

· Cynthia Anderson Hansen (Austin, TX) "My interest in humanitarian aid work began while living in Mexico, working for a non-profit whose efforts focused on a rural, deeply impoverished, indigenous community in the mountains of Guerrero. I have seen that it is possible to stretch every dollar so that it goes to the people who need it, not the ones who administer it. I see the same 'financial stretching' in Cabeceras Aid Project and welcome the opportunity to continue to serve the organization as a board member. In addition, I am a past participant in the Iquito Project, so I am very familiar with this branch of Cabeceras and the positive role it has played in the community of San Antonio."

· Amanda King (Santa Fe, NM) "I have known of Cabeceras for many years through my partner Nathaniel Gerhart, who worked with Chris and Lev on language documentation in Montetone. I recently became personally involved with the organization as a member of the Nathaniel Gerhart Scholarship Fund/Indigenous Students Grant Committee. I have an academic background in agroecology, an interest in Latin America, and a personal commitment to the communities and people with whom my partner and I have worked. I believe in the vital importance of Cabeceras' language documentation projects and small-scale development activities, and I am particularly interested in helping Cabeceras to further develop their scholarship program, which parallels activities I am undertaking in Indonesia. As a member of the board, I hope to increase awareness of Cabeceras' activities, bring additional funds to the organization, and bring my energy and experience to both new and ongoing initiatives.

· Lev Michael (El Cerrito, CA) "I wish to express my great desire to be re-elected to Cabeceras Aid Project's board of directors. I believe that my previous experience with the organization, as well as my familiarity with many indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon, make me well-suited to serve on the board. In addition, I have been involved in the planning and execution of the majority of Cabeceras' field projects, giving me practical experience that should serve the organization well as it expands, to work in more communities and to develop new kinds of projects aimed at supporting the indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon in their efforts to determine their own futures."

· Margo Minogue Heyl (Houston, TX) "I would be honored to be asked to serve on this Board for another term. My interest and support of Cabeceras has only grown over the years as I have been privileged to see its focus broaden yet its mission remain constant. The fact that each penny of every contribution is spent wisely and only upon direct aid makes it the best of causes to support. I have made it an avocation to spread the word to those who can support its goals in spirit or in tangible ways. Over the years I have been able to help host a few informational and fundraising get-togethers in Houston. In 2007, my husband and I offered a matching challenge grant for the month of January."

· Roahn Wynar (Alameda, CA)

· Anthony Woodbury (Austin, TX) "I am interested in serving on Cabeceras' board of directors because I strongly support the goals of Cabeceras. In particular, I appreciate the uniquely holistic approach that Cabeceras takes toward aid. By holistic, I mean the focus on health together with social self-determination, cultural continuity, and language maintenance. I believe that in the long run, these areas are all linked and that aid work attending only to some of it is incomplete or only of shorter-term value. My own contribution to the board is as someone with expertise in one aspect of Cabeceras' broad-spectrum approach. I am a professional linguist specializing in the documentation of endangered languages. I have participated in the documentation of Cup'ik, a language of southwestern Alaska, and Chatino, a language of Oaxaca, Mexico, and I am involved in the formation of general methodologies and strategies for language documentation and description."

· Linda Young (San Francisco, CA) "I currently work as a business systems analyst for a financial services firm here in San Francisco. I also have a background in math and then in opera performance, and I have a long-standing interest in Latin American and Spanish cultures. I've known Lev since our first day at college and I've known Chris almost as long. During that time it's been exciting to see their interest in linguistics and in the Peruvian Amazon grow, and to watch this organization being built. I'm fascinated by and proud of what Cabeceras has accomplished and would love to continue to lend to it the organizational (or other) talents I have gained in my own travels."