TEAM
Board of Directors
Katharina Breme, JD
Vice-Chair
Katharina is the Founder of an international consulting firm providing strategic advisory to academic and corporate clients in the United States, Europe and Asia. As the Managing Director she engages as an entrepreneurial consultant, lecturer, investor and board member. Prior to starting her company in 2007 she was a senior executive at Deutsche Post DHL group. Katharina holds a JD and a global corporate degree in leadership and management.
Jamie Stanton, MA
An alumna of Team El Salvador (2015), Jamie Stanton worked as a researcher and policy analyst in the Bajo Lempa region while earning her MA in Public Administration and International Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS). She continued her policy work at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva, Switzerland. Her focus was on developing monitoring and evaluation systems for disarmament programs in conflict regions to measure community level impact. Based in Washington D.C., she is currently an editorial researcher at National Geographic, ensuring integrity of digital and video content.
Jenny Miller Garmendia, MA
Jenny Miller Garmendia spent 30 years in Southeast Asia and has extensive experience in education and conservation. She serves on the Board of several conservation organizations including WaterWays, Friends of the Sonoran Desert and CARE (California Artificial Reef Enhancement). Jenny was the Executive Director of Project AWARE Foundation, an international non-profit organization that works with divers to drive local action for global ocean conservation through citizen science, public policy and community grants.
Jenny holds a master’s degree in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and was a Degree Fellow at the East-West Center while at the University of Hawaii. She has done research in international fisheries and ocean governance, has extensive experience working with government agencies and has served on standard-setting and policy committees at the local, national and international level.
Ana Vicente, Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Ana Vicente is an experienced attorney with a demonstrated history of working in the legal services industry. Skilled in Civil Rights Litigation, California Labor Law, Fair Housing, Administrative Law, and Employment Law. Strong legal professional who graduated from Northeastern University School of Law.
Ana works as a Directing Attorney at California Rural Legal Assistance, a Law Firms & Legal Services company with an estimated 154 employees founded in 1966.
Nick Rahaim
Nick Rahaim is a multimedia journalist, blue economy researcher, commercial fisherman and recent Fulbright fellow in El Salvador. He received a Master of Arts in International Environmental Policy at the Middlebury Institute in 2022. Rahaim worked the public safety beat at The Press Democrat where he was a member of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning team for breaking news. As a commercial fisherman he has worked in more than a dozen fisheries in the North Pacific logging more than 1,000 days at sea.
Heather Davis
Treasurer
Heather Davis is dedicated to continuous learning and connecting people. She attended Iowa State University and uses her expertise in communications, science outreach, data security, and business development to support her work in small-staff/big-impact nonprofit organizations. Heather enjoys fostering inclusive cultures and connecting individuals to create self-sustaining cycles of impact. In addition to her professional experience, she also volunteers with environmental and conservancy organizations.
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