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Founded in 1982, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA (GHRC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, humanitarian organization that monitors, documents, and reports on the human rights situation in Guatemala, advocates for survivors of human rights abuses in Guatemala, and works toward positive, systemic change.

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Sewanee: The University of the South; PhD, University of North Carolina (1974).

GSN Treasurer 1992-2011. Interests include indigenous language pedagogy, links between language and identity and the mobilization of those links. Began fieldwork in Kaqchikel in 1985. In pre-administrator life co-authored ¿La ütz awäch? Introduction to Kaqdchikel Maya Language (2006) and The Life of Our Language: Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift and Revitalization (1998) and co-edited Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala (1996). Produced El futuro maya video on the Mayan movement and translation of Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez poems. Graduate degrees from Tulane University, where I co-founded (and until 1996) co-directed the Oxlajuj Aj Kaqchikel Course. Have consulted on indigenous language pedagogy for UNC-Chapel Hill, U Texas at Austin, Tulane and Yale universities.