Leanne Talen Geisterfer (US expatriate, LAMT team leader)
Currently, Leanne is the Latin America Team Leader, based in Haiti, where she was last working as a program consultant. Her academic training includes a BA in Spanish, with certification in elementary and bilingual education, along with an MA from Michigan State University in educational administration and literacy. Leanne’s passion is adult literacy and learning, so her focus as a program consultant was on literacy and the training aspects of partner agency programs.
Leanne’s first experience outside of North America was a year of study at the University of Madrid. While there, she was “hooked” on cross-cultural living and not much later met Caspar, who had just returned from a summer in Kenya. The mutual love of exploring God’s vast world was an attraction. They began working with CRWRC in 1982 and have served in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Caspar is currently working on an M.Div. degree from Calvin Theological Seminary. Their son Reuben, 19, is working in Canada, before undertaking university studies.
EMAIL: leanne@fastmail.fm
Rob Wood (Justice and Service Learning)
Betty (Roldan) Wood joined CRWRC in 1973. She is a graduate of the University of Chile with a Masters degree in Public Health. She did community development work with CRWRC in Honduras, Mexico and Belize before moving to Ecuador in 1993.
While in Belize Betty met Rob, a graduate of Edinburgh University, Scotland, who was then factory manager in a citrus processing plant. They married in December 1995 and Rob then went to Ecuador to work as a volunteer with CRWRC. Today, Rob serves as the Justice and Service Learning Coordinator for CRWRC’s Latin America Ministry Team. Rob & Betty live in Quito, Ecuador.
EMAIL: crwrc@accessinter.net
