Born, raised and living in Quito, Ecuador Santiago Borja is a pilot for a major airline in the region. He's been flying long haul between the Americas and Europe for years now, and for many of those years, and developed a true passion for photography and the nature surrounding our planet.
Marcelo Korc, PhD, MPH has been with the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) since 1998. Currently, he is Unit Chief, Climate Change and Environmental Determinants of Health. Previously, he was a regional advisor with the responsibility of developing the Organization’s cooperation program on air quality and health for the Region of the Americas and provided policy and technical advice to senior government officials on air quality, human security, and healthy environments in the US-Mexico border region, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. He received a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (Cum Laude) from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1987, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester in New York in 1992, and a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Texas in 2011. He was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994, where he received the R. C. Barnard Environmental Science and Engineering Award and received the Sandy Tyler Endowed Fellowship in Health Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso in 2011.
Dr. Rebecca Nixon is postdoctoral researcher with the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant and the Forestry and Natural Resources Department at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. in Natural Resource Social Science from Purdue University in 2020 and a dual master’s degree in Sustainable Agriculture and Community and Regional Planning from Iowa State University in 2017. Her work focuses on natural resource decision-making and adaptation to social-ecological change through research projects in Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and the Midwestern United States.
Wally Mazon is very passionate about people & how to empower them. Wally is interested in being apart of an organization that has a mission to do that. With a main focus is on community & movement organizing, leadership development, and political strategy. He's done political campaigns as well. Skilled in training and volunteer mobilization.
Dr. Esteban Ramirez attended medical school at Michigan State University. He earned his MBA from Purdue University. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He has been in practice for 13 years. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine with Indiana School of Medicine.
He has served in various leadership positions in healthcare including Chair of the Internal Medicine Department at Indiana University Health Arnett (IUHA), Chair of the Quality and Patient Safety Committee, Director of a Preoperative Assessment Clinic and now serves as the Chief Medical Officer for the Protect Purdue Health Center.