MSN Staff

Tom Hansen is the National Coordinator 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 is a contributor to "Mesoamerica, Los Rios Profundos: Alternativas al Plan Puebla Panama" published in Mexico and holds a masters degree in Rural Development from the UAM-Xochimilco in Mexico City.

Macrina Càrdenas de Alarcon is the Legislative Coordinator of the Mexico Solidarity Network in Washington, DC. Macrina has 30 years of political organizing experience in the US and Mexico. For the past 12 years her major focus has been immigrant rights in the United States, including 8 years with the Diocese of Rochester in New York State.

Jessica Marques is the Grassroots Coordinator in San Francisco, CA. Prior to opening the San Francisco office in October, 2001, she served as our Legislative Coordinator in Washington, DC, for two years. Jessica has six years of organizing experience working with El Rescate in Los Angeles, CA, and the Center for Survivors of Torture in Dallas, TX.

Zach Hurwitz is the Development Coordinator in San Francisco, CA. Zach coordinated for the protests against the FTAA ministerial round in Quito, Ecuador in 2002, where he was also an independent journalist, a teacher, a bilingual translator, and a contributing writer for Cultural Survival Quarterly on the effects of Plan Colombia on indigenous communities of the Amazon Basin. He has a BA in Sociology from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and is aiming to begin an MA/PhD in Anthropology at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City.

Cy nthia Diaz is an Grassroots Intern in Chicago, IL. Cynthia served as the Chair of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan (MEChA) and founded Raza Womyn at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she received a BA in Ethnic Studies. As a student, she took part in Union Summer with the AFL-CIO and worked with the Baltimore Justice for Janitors Campaign. Cynthia studied abroad in Nicaragua and Bolivia and did research on rural women's lack of access to reproductive health care and worked with the Federacion Nacional de Mujeres Campesina “Bartolina Sisa” in Bolivia.