PROFESSION Consultant: International Communications & Cooperation
Professional Training: International Services and
Developmnet/International Enviromental Studies

Current: 2000 to date Global Greengrants Fund - Brazil Coordinator
1993 to date IECO-Eco'Living Institute
Founder and General Coordinator
Guaratingueta', São Paulo, Brasil

JOB EXPERIENCE & PUBLIC SERVICE

Long Term Consultation

2000… Global Greengrants Fund, Brazil Coordinator - supports environmental
activism in over 40 less industrialized countries.

1994 to 1999 Director, Network Development Program, International Secretariat
APC-Association for Progressive Communications - international
computer association of networks for social change, development, environment, peace, and justice.

1993-94 Association for Progressive Communications/
Damien Foundation: Coordinating Brazilian
Environmental Communications Network - 35 Brazilian
Environmental NGOs introduced and connected to the Internet

1989/92 Brazilian Nucleus of Indian Cultures:International
Relations, Cooperation, Fundraising, Grant Proposal
Writing, Translations

Programs: Indian Research Center, Goiania - GO
Forest Peoples Embassy, Sao Paulo - SP
Sustainable Development projects in Indian Reserves

1990 Rain Forest Futures: Adviser on Fundable Projects
and Newsletter Correspondent

1989 Rainforest Action Network:
Associate Writer: Amazon Resource and Action Guide
on role of Amazon based Grassroots NGOs &
International organizations involved in Amazonia

Initiated the Amazon Information Center as pilot
program for other Regional Centers specialized in
maintaining close contacts with rainforest based
grassroots and non-gonvernmental organizations

1987/88 South and Meso-American Indian Information Center:
Board of Directors
Developed communication program with South-
American Indian organizations, especially Brazil

Short Term Consultation

01/2002 Environmental Grantmakers Association, USA,
for the Funders Network on Trade and Globalization:
Programming/logistics for the a delegation to the II World Social Forum

9/1993 Municipal Government of Doverlandia, GO
Advising/ Translating/Project writing for
negotiations at Workshop:Financing the Net
Incremental Costs of Implementing the UNCED
Conventions - GEF Congress in Rio de Janeiro

5-7/1992 Up With People International: Recruiting and
Admissions in visit to Rio for Eco-92

1/1988 Earth Island Institute/Rainforest Health Alliance:
Consulted on health projects developed by Brazilian
Amazon based organizations

11/1987 Fox Television, New York:
Advised on locations and issues in Brazil of
media interest, providing direct contacts/guides.

1987 Global Education Marin - Administration/organization
especialized library on international and
intercultural education

6-8/1987 Close Up Foundation: Pacific Rim Research
Teacher Activities Organizer

Periodic/Sporadic Advising
*National Council of Rubber Tappers, Acre
*Small Farmers Agro-ecological Association, Para
*Alliance of the Peoples of the Forest, Sao Paulo
*Agroecology Technology Center for Small Farmers,GO
*Amazonia: Voices from the Rainforest Film Project
*Decade of Destruction Series
*World Wildlife Fund - Washington, D.C., US
*Inter-American Foundation - Washington, D.C., US
*United Kingdom Overseas Development Agency, UK
*Canadian International Development Agency
*Jornal Viva Alternativa, Distrito Federal
*Damien Foundation - California, US
*Oxfam-America - Massachusetts, US
*IDEX-International Development Exchange, California, US
*Brazil Network, Washington, D.C.
*Gaia Foundation, UK

WORKSHOPS & LECTURES

General Themes:

Building Bridges, Working Together: Brazilian issues or world issues?
* National Network of Grantmakers Conference, San Francisco, USA 10/2001

Global Digital Divide: the included and the excluded
* Connecticut College, CO, USA 4/2001
Electronic Communications and Civil Society
Sub-themes: Gender, Education, Development, Peace, Grassroots organizing, Environment, etc.

* Information and Society Congress, Genova, Italy 10/97
* Japan Computer Center, Tokyo, Japan, 9/97
* LEAD International Training, Rockefeller Fnd, Japan 9/97
* Electronic Information Expo, Ljubljana, Slovenja, 10/96
* Barcelona, Spain, 9/96
* Videazimut Annual Assembly, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 7/96
* V Forum Latin American&Caribean Networks, Lima,Peru 4/96
* Colombian NGOs meeting, Bogota', Colombia 8/95
* I*EARN Annual Teacher's Training,Melbourne,Australia 7/95
* Berlin Climate Conference, Berlin, Germany 4/95
* Belgium NGO's Counter G7 Summit Conference, Belgium 3/95
* First Seminar on Consequences of the South Cone Hidroway
Parana/Paraguay River, Sao Paulo, Brasil 12/94

Developing International Cooperation and Partners:
*Speaker at XIV Annual New England Environmental
Network Conference, Tufts University, Mass., USA 1992
*Northeastern Brazil Environmental Network, Brasil 1991-92

Forest Peoples Alternative Use for Amazonian Resources:
*Brazil Network Conferences, USA & UK -1989
*Women's Environmental Network, UK -1989
*Brazilian Debt Conference- Oxfam-America, USA-1988
*University of California Berkeley, USA -1988
*International Indian Treaty Council, USA -1989-91

SPECIAL EVENTS ORGANIZER
*1991 Milton Nascimento World Tour with Forest
Peoples Alliance: coordinated events and
organizers for fundraising contacts and public
appearances and media coverage in NY, Boston, Washington
D.C., L.A., Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Berkeley

*Organized/Guided members of Rain Forest Futures in
visit to FP Alliance projects in Sao Paulo, Goias,
Mato Grosso, Para, Acre, 1991

*Advised and accompanied Eco-turism documentary crew
to the Pantanal, Amazon, and Savanah regions, 1991

*Advised on itineraries for environmentally
educational tours for Mountain Travel/Sobek
Expeditions, Global Exchange, and The World Bank
Environmental Department, 1991

EDUCATION

2000 Intensive Training on Deep Ecology Group Dynamics - Joanna Macy Prog.

1999 Graduated: Holistic/Peace University of Brasil - First Module

1989 B.A. Degree and Independent Studies:
International Services and Development-
Emphasis on International Environmental Studies
World College West, Marin County, CA, USA

1985-86 World Study Program in Mexico - six months
Research: Forest Management as an Alternative to
Deforestation by Purepecha Indians of Michoacan

1984 College of Southern Idaho - Twin Falls, ID
Major Field of concentration: Political Sciences

1983 International educational organization
Up With People, CO - one year int'l exchange
experience traveling through 70 towns and cities
in 5 countries, participated in international
musical show and community involvement work.

1982 Faculdade Ibero-Americana de Ciencias e Letras
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Translating/Interpreting: German/Portuguese

1981 Rotary Youth Exchange Program - Idaho

1980 Graduated from Professional Vocational School
Translating and Interpreting - English/Portuguese

SCHOLARSHIPS

2000 Global Knowledge II World Conference: Building Information Societies, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia - World Bank funded - UNIFEM Nominee
1989 World Wildlife Fund/The Conservation Fnd. Work-
shop - "Resolving Environmental Disputes: Forest
Management in the Americas"
1988 Environmental Leadership Training - Tufts Univ., MA
1986 Internship at RAN - special Scholarship by Pan American
Society, San Francisco, CA
1985-89 World College West, CA
1984 Idaho World Trade Association, Twin Falls, ID
1981 Rotary Club, International Student Exchange Program

MEMBER
*Institute of Noetic Sciences, Sausalito, CA
*International Union for the Conservation of
Nature's Commission on Education and Communication
*Up With People International

NATIONALITY Brazilian
LANGUAGES Portuguese: Fluent - English:Fluent -Spanish: Fluent

REFERENCES
Edie Farwell - former Executive Director - APC: Assoc. for Progressive Communications
Email: efarwell@igc.org

Carlos Alberto Afonso, Board of Director, IBASE / Development Dir. RITS
Rua Sorocaba, 219, apto.501 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Tel: +55 (21) 535 0725 Email: ca@rits.org.br

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