Travel to Teach Costa Rica Personnel

Nat
P'Nat a Ghanian, who grew up in London, is a former web designer with the BBC who worked with T2T in Nongkhai, initially as a volunteer and then as our web designer and technical director. After a very successful year in Thailand Nat left in 2006 to fulfill his dream of starting a volunteer program in South America and decided to locate his program in Samara, Costa Rica. Nat is Executive Director of our Costa Rican program.

Meaw
Meaw originally from Nongkhai, Thailand is T2T Costa Rica's general manager and book keeper. She also helps to look after volunteers and train our Costa Rican staff. 'Mama' Meaw has lots experience working with volunteers having worked for T2T for 3 years in Thailand looking after our volunteers in Nongkhai and then managing our project on Koh Chang.

Francisco Goldenberg Jiron (Paco)
Paco is a local from Samara. He has an educational background in chemistry and works in the local pharmacy. Paco runs our cultural emersion program and acts as our advisor on many Costa Rican topics. He is our connection into real Guancaste and Costa Rican life.

Juan Eloy Bermudez
Juan works for Intel in its quality assurance centre in San Jose. Juan is also studying Mechanical Engineering at university and is our coordinator in the central valley, he organises arrivals in San Jose and enjoys opportunities for cultural exchange with international volunteers.

Kerstin
Swedish consultant who left behind a long career in Swedish local and regional agencies to set up and manage Travel-to-Teach. She operates from a house in the center of Nongkhai, Thailand. Kerstin's essays, written in Swedish, are syndicated to magazines on Scandinavian airlines destined for BKK.

Contact Kerstin: kerstin@travel-to-teach .org

Jessica
Jessica, from the US, worked in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, and also has a background in Anthropology and Archaeology. She was a volunteer with T2T in the beginning of 2005, she is now our Out of Country Co-ordinator and also helps volunteers in Nong Khai and runs the weekly volunteer meetings.

Contact Jessica: jessica@travel-to-teach.org

Rick
Rick initially came to Thailand as a travel to teach volunteer before becoming our coordinator in Namsom and Pai. Now Rick is responsible for all Thailand bookings and oversees all our locations In Thailand.

Contact Rick: rick@travel-to-teach.org

David
David a Computer Science graduate from the UK and former Phon Phisai volunteer runs the Travel to Teach website. He is also designing a database to automate our application procedure's and helping with co-ordinating our IT programs, our network and general IT problems.

Contact David: david@travel-to-teach.org

Pim
Pim is another former FGCC student who is currently studying Political Science with Ramkhamhang Open University in Bangkok. Pim works in our Nongkhai head office managing our accounts.

Contact Pim: pim@travel-to-teach.org

Charlotte
Charlotte, a Media and Communications major from England, joined T2T in 2005 and worked as our business development manager in Nongkhai. She has now returned to England where she will continue to help with marketing Travel to Teach.

Contact Charlotte: charlotte@travel-to-teach.org

Darcy
Darcy Tucker is our USA Representative. She has extensive experience traveling throughout South East Asia as well as Europe, South America, Central America and the USA. She has lived/worked/studied/traveled in over 25 countries. Based in New York City, she currently works as a project manager for the non-profit group New Leaders for New Schools. Darcy comes from a family of many educators, has worked in for-profit and non-profit contexts and has taught English overseas. In her free time she enjoys planning her next holiday, scuba diving, reading, cooking and dancing to 80's music.

Contact Darcy: darcy@travel-to-teach.org