MSN Staff

Carlos Euceda is the Coordinator of the Albany Park Autonomous Center. Carlos is a native of Honduras and has 10 years of experience in community organizing and international human rights.

Verónica Rosario Leyva is a grassroots organizer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. She spent ten years working in the maquiladora industry, and has been organizing in her community for fifteen years conducting workshops on worker's and women's rights. She has also been involved with the struggle for justice for the victims of the femicides in Ciudad Juarez. She has worked with various organizations in civil society struggling to change the overall living conditions in her community, and was most recently working with CETLAC (Centro de Estudios y Taller Laboral), until joining the MSN.

Stuart Schussler holds a masters degree in International Relations from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales- Ecuador. His previous work includes human rights observation concerning a mining conflict in Intag, Ecuador and work with Colombian refugees in Quito.

Tony Nelson has worked as a community organizer, teacher, and human rights activist around the issues of immigration, education, prison reform, anti-neoliberalism, and US-sponsored torture. His political orientation is formed by the solidarity work he has done with compañer@s fighting for economic and social justice in Mexico, Guatemala, and the US. He received his BA from Grand Valley State University (2003) and his MA from Syracuse University (2009) in the areas of communication theory, rhetoric, and philosophy.

Dra. Maria Gloria Benavides Guevara is a professor of Spanish and Mexican culture in the Study Abroad Program. She holds a doctorate in anthropology from the Ciesas in Mexico City.

Tom Hansen is the International Education Director of the Mexico Solidarity Network. From 1988 to 1997 Tom was the Director of Pastors for Peace. From 1987 to 1988 he organized the first national material aid caravan to Latin America as National Coordinator of the Veterans Peace Convoy to Nicaragua. From 1984-1986 he was co-founder of the New York-Nicaragua Construction Brigade. He has a doctorate in rural development at the UAM-Xochimilco in Mexico City.