Travel to Teach Ecuadorian Personnel

Patricio
Patricio Fernandez, an engineer and Spanish and English teacher. Native from Santo Domingo, he has been working with volunteering in Ecuador since 1999. He also currently serves as Director of Experiential Learning Ecuadorian Programs. Patricio has ample experience in the educational, tourist and social activities.

Kleber
Kleber Parrales is a technician in telecommunication. He graduated from Politécnica del Litoral in his hometown, Guayaquil. Kleber works as our program officer where his capacity to lead, connect with people and open new horizons prove extremely valuable.

Patricia
Patricia Parrales is an educative psychologist. She graduated from Universidad Católica and is native from Guayaquil. She works with us as general coordinator and has worked as teacher, Director of customer service and collaborated as a volunteer with groups of young people with special problems.

Liz
Liz Bermeo, a native of Puerto Lopez, has collaborated with many social organizations as a volunteer. She is currently a freelance teacher and Director in a rural school in Puerto Lopez. She works as our local coordinator in Puerto Lopez.

Margarita
Margarita Suarez, is native of San Cristobal Galapagos Islands and works as a teacher in a local school. She also serves as counselor in the municipality of San Cristobal. A professional in the legal field, Margarita is our coordinator in the Galapagos Islands.

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