Nathan Wallace

Profile coming soon.

Rob is a professor and expert in Central America’s ecological and geological history. His academic research encompasses paleoecology, paleoclimatology, natural hazards (wildfires, volcanism), climate change, and geoarchaeology in Mesoamerica, the western United States and Latin America. He is also an avid surfer.

Christy Reich is the Director of Operations for a privately held company and farm in Thousand Oaks, California. She served in the Peace Corps from 1999-2001, focusing on developing community based eco-tourism in the coastal savannah region in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa. That project led to a lifelong love of bird watching which she pursues whenever the chance to travel comes along. Currently she is also working with several departments from UC Davis on preserving a rare equine breed that had been isolated on an island off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and whose numbers are fewer than 50 left in the world.

Chris currently works in finance as an internal auditor. However, he has always had a passion for education and wildlife conservation. Chris has a variety of educational work experiences: for example, in 2001, after obtaining his pilots license, Chris spent time in Kenya receiving flight training from the Kenyan Wildlife Service and joined their efforts to combat poaching in Eastern Africa. More recently, he worked as a Program Leader for the Portland Public Schools Outdoor School Program, where he taught students science and interpersonal skills in an outdoor setting.

Eric Ponçon comes from a family tradition of farming in Central America and southern France. With a degree in agricultural economics and finance from Cornell University, he has held trading and management positions in Nicaragua, New York, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Eric has ownership interests in sustainable coffee, forestry and several small-to-medium tourism enterprises. Throughout his career, he has brought together small farmers and global buyers in public-private partnerships. Eric continues the tradition of family farming with his wife, Carolina, and their four children.