LEÓN STAFF
PROJECT COORDINATOR
Felice Chay
Felice graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business. As a student, she spent a year working as a consultant at the Wharton Small Business Development Center. After a short six month period working in a venture capital start-up in Philadelphia, Felice moved to western Honduras, where she spent two years serving as an Economic Development volunteer with Peace Corps Honduras. While there, she worked as a consultant with local NGOs, small businesses and coffee cooperatives. She also provided small business training to rural banks, women's groups and secondary school students. Her experience in the Peace Corps gave birth to a love for Central America and a passion for development work.
After returning to the States, she joined AmeriCorps VISTA and spent a year as a Resource Developer for Centro Nueva Creacion, a non-profit social services center in North Philadelphia. There she gained valuable experience in grant writing and non-profit management, but felt an intense desire to return to Central America.
In May 2005, Felice moved to Leon to become the Project Coordinator of Project Gettysburg/León. She lives in Barrio Subtiava with her four-year old daughter Alejandra.
PGL's Delegation Coordinator
Ofelia Arteaga & Family
Ofelia Arteaga, PGL's Delegation Coordinator, grew up in Managua and received her Bachelor's Degree in Ecology and Development from the Central American University of Nicaragua (UCA). Her thesis project consisted of an inventory of the Birdlife in the Estuary Padre Ramos, in the department of Chinandega. In 2003, she and her now-husband Olin Cohan founded UniversitArea Protegida-Nicaragua (UAP), an NGO to provide Nicaraguan university students with scholarships to do thesis research in Protected Areas. Through her work in UAP, she gained valuable experience in planning and executing environmental education workshops in rural areas, as well as coordinating and facilitating delegations from various foreign universities.
As Delegation Coordinator, Ofelia will be planning and facilitating PGL's delegations to and from Nicaragua, as well as giving follow-up to our Sister Schools Program. She will also be working on developing new contacts and new host communities for future delegation activities.
Ofelia is an avid birdwatcher and she and Olin have a one-year old daughter named Kenna.
PG/L's Housekeeper
Anielka de los Angeles Carvajal García & Her Children
Anielka de los Angeles Carvajal García is 24 years old and comes from a very humble home. Her father is a farmer and mother is from the edge of the city. She has two siblings, is married and has two children, Lipzy, 5, and Rudy, 3. She currently works as the housekeeper of PGL. On Sundays she studies at INTAE-INATEC and am in her last year of a technical degree in Business Administration.
This page was updated in August 17, 2007.
