ENGAGE - Governance

Board of Peers
The Board of Peers is a representative body of ENGAGE members responsible for advising larger-scale ENGAGE Campaigns and funding projects, as well as for helping to steer other major organizational decisions. The Board of Peers oversees organizational milestones and progress, and ensures organizational continuity and the integrity of institutional and organizational relationships. You are encouraged to learn more about the members of the ENGAGE Board of Peers by reading their profiles, below.

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Board of Peers Profiles

Kaia Peterson, Missoula, MT
As a founding member of ENGAGE, Kaia Peterson was involved in the earliest iterations of the organization while participating in the CIEE-Khon Kaen (Thailand) study abroad program in the Fall of 1999. She also served as a volunteer staff person for ENGAGE in 2003-2004, during which time she helped build connections around Fair Trade issues and coordinated two national ENGAGE meetings.

Kaia joined the Board of Peers in 2006. She is inspired by and committed to the focus ENGAGE brings to the relationships between community, environment, and economy and the mechanisms it provides to young people to contribute to social change.

Kaia graduated with a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Bates College in 2001 and holds an MBA from the University of Washington. As an MBA student, Kaia was involved in numerous projects related to sustainability and business, including serving as the president of the business school’s Net Impact Chapter, interning as a business plan consultant for the Colville Confederated Tribes, working as a communications and marketing intern with Pura Vida Coffee, serving as a Luce Fellow in the University’s Environmental Management Program with the City of Seattle Climate
Partnership and working with the Seattle-based firm Sustainable Business Consulting (formerly Innovative Strategies). Kaia now lives in Missoula, Montana where she is doing business and non-profit consulting.

Mandy Skinner
Mandy Skinner joined the Board of Peers in 2007 with a focus on expanding the ENGAGE model and working with other study abroad programs, specifically in Latin America.

Mandy participated in the Center for Global Education's semester program in Cuernavaca, Mexico in Spring 2003 (with travel to Guatemala and El Salvador). She graduated from Indiana University that same year, where she created her own major
combining Anthropology, Ecology, Religious Studies, and Latin American
studies, and also completed a Theater and Drama degree. Throughout college Mandy organized with No Sweat! at IU and national United Students Against Sweatshops, and often volunteered her time to work with the Indiana Forest Alliance, Heartwood, and the Center for Sustainable Living.

From 2004-2006, Mandy worked with the Beehive Design Collective presenting the collective's graphics campaigns as popular education tools; she has led many participatory workshops about resistance to the FTAA, Plan Colombia, and Plan Puebla Panama in the Americas. As a Board of Peers member, Mandy will continue outreach to Latin America programs, and hopes to contribute to the development of popular education and media/arts-related projects within ENGAGE.

Stephanie Teatro
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Cash Nigro
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Chris Westcott
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Kyra Busch
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