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Leadership team

Juan Carlos Aguirre

Executive Director
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Juan Carlos Aguirre is a resident of Jackson Heights, Queens. He has served in the United States Navy and received a Bachelor of Science from St. John’s University. He has worked for several years serving the Mexican community in New York in after school programs, adult education, and immigrant advocacy where he built strategic relationships with other community-based organizations, academic institutions, and agencies. Mr. Aguirre is a recent Alumnus from the Coro Immigrant Civic Leadership Program 2011. He is a new member of the Advisory Council to the Institute of Mexicans Abroad (IME), a detached office of Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE). Currently, Mr. Aguirre utilizes his experience in developing and implementing programs for the Mexican immigrant community with an emphasis on traditional arts and culture.

Luz Aguirre

Program Director
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Luz Aguirre is the Program Director and sister to the Executive Director, born in Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico and relocated to New York since the age of 11, has been involved in Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders since 2007. A lover of culture, she is always on the look-out for artists that help in the promotion/preservation of Mexico’s various art forms.

Special Projects

Carlos D. Hernandez

Operations Support

David Sheahan

Technology Associate

Nohemi Esparza

Accountant

Star Volunteers

Miguel Angel Angeles

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Thelma Suarez-Ortega

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Board of Directors

Alyshia Gálvez

Lehman College, City University of New York

Lisia Leon

Paduano & Weintraub

Isabel Martinez

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

Jesus Perez

Brooklyn College/City University of New York

Virginia Ramirez

Z Live Inc. 

Elizabeth Rivera

PS 333

Emily Socolov, Ph. D.

Founder, Folklorist

Cesar Zuñiga

The Parent-Child Home Program

Gracias!

Volunteers

Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders would like to thank past members for their hard work and important contributions to the success of this project. These include:

Miguel Bonilla, Adriana Caballero, John Camacho, Brenda Campos, Juan Castaño, Mercedes Caso, Juan Castillo, Itandehui Chávez-Geller, Jorge Cortes, Miguel A. Cossio, Angelica Diaz, Juventina Durán, Janet Falk, Elizabeth Ferrer, Aurelia Fernández Marure, Mayra García, Yolanda Leticia García, Mary Teresa Giancoli, José Refugio González, Lupita González, Enrique González Ibarra, Antonia Guerrero, Mónica Guevara, Carlos Gutierrez, Gabriel Guzmán, Jairo Guzmán, Ashleigh Hendrix, Verónica Hernández, Erasmo Herrera, Laura Jackson, Eriko Katsuyama, Margarita Larios, Estela López Schmidt, Mercedes López, Rocio Marquez Rodríguez, Joaquín Martínez, Tanya Melendez, Leslie Ogan, Cecilia Ortega, Felipe J Ortega-Gómez, Maegan Pacheco, Julia del Palacio, Álvaro Paulino Jr., Ramon Ponce Jr, Ramon Ponce Sr, Cathy Ragland, Alda Reuter, Esther Roth, Ariel Alejandro Rodríguez, Zafiro Zatzin Romero, Mary Ellen Sanger, Kirsten Schmitt, Steve Sunderland, Jennifer Vallone, Jorge Vargas, Erika Vilfort

Project Interns

Liz Abraham, Geoffroy Aubrey, Manuel Cartagena, Laura Celaya, YukChi Chiu, Ferlan Chua, Arianna Corredor, N'deye Diop, Eric Estevez, Tzetzangari Fernandez, Salvatore Giametta, Daryl Johnson, Sang Yeob / Christopher Kim, Sylvia Lande, Junior G. Lauture, Leah Lowthorp, Eric Magalong, Cait Makielski, Christina Mancheno, Marta McAdams (Skowronska), Talia Mills, Divine Muragijimana, Samantha Nelson, Anna Peckham, Daria Preston, Stacy-Ann Rose, Anya Rous, Alejandro Robert Minchaca, Alicia Portada, Ashok Rajamani, Allison Russell, Luis Saavedra, Yvette Salinas, Armando Sanjur, Naomi Sturm, Thelma Suarez, Jean Tanis, Cos Tollerson, Daisy, Gladys and Julio Urbano, Mayra Vargas, Shawn Wiley