The Harmony Project is very proud of their amazing global team. Their dedication to our vision and the impressive skillsets they contribute promise to make the Harmony Project an enriching experience for countless people around the world.
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Harvey West & Xiaobo Yao-West
CoFounders, East West bridge, China Resource for Life
The China Antique Company, West Design Studio & China Fine Arts
Based on their work with the project "Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China" Harvey and Xiaobo discovered the distinctive regional characteristics of China's Imperial studios such as: Jingdezhen imperial porcelain, Suzhou court furniture, Nanjing imperial brocaded robes, Luoyang tri-colour ceramics for imperial tombs, Zhengzhou royal ritual bronzes and Huhehaote palace carpets. Using these historical models they re-created the past furniture-making workshops that were home to China's finest artists and craftsmen. Today it is mature, committed to the faithful preservation and museum quality restoration of China's historical furniture and architecture.
The West Design Studio creates unique limited editions, designed by Harvey West and other leading Western designers, that are handmade by the studio artisans and China Fine Arts features leading contemporary painters and sculptors. It is currently active with commissions for residential and hotel suite interiors, furniture and decorative arts in North America, Hong Kong and China. This organization is set to become the principle intellectual and antiquity investor in the China location and is uniquely suited to research, design and appoint the facilities faithful to its concept with the requisite quality, authenticity and detail. Bradford Zak, Harvey and Xiaobo have known each other for 10 years.
Harvey West – In 1985, as director of the Museum of Art, University of Washington, Harvey was invited to Beijing by Deng Pufang, eldest son of Deng Xiaoping, and the Ministry of Culture to organize a major exhibition of China's national cultural artefacts for the United States, in part, to strengthen Sino-American friendship.
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From 1985 to 1988, Harvey lead the American team and worked with the Ministry of Culture to conceptualize, organize, and present an exhibition "Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China" and publish its catalogue. It focused on twenty-six centuries of work by imperial artists and their studios and was visited by 1.2 million people in Seattle and Columbus, Ohio. Before turning his interest and energy to the art of China in 1985, Harvey West had been deeply involved in American art as a museum director. Over a fifteen-year period, a series of nationally significant classical and 19th and 20th century American art exhibitions were created and presented under his direction. In addition, he was instrumental in the publication of numerous art books and the organization of critical issue symposia involving many of America’s best artists and historians. His last major American project, before going to China, was an exhibition and publication titled "William Merritt Chase: A Leading Spirit in American Art" for the University of Washington, Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Xiaobo Yao-West joined the "Son of Heaven" project in Beijing, January 1986, with the responsibility for China government affairs. During the next four years, she handled difficulties inherent in such a large and complex Sino-American cultural exchange.
She left China in 1984 to pursue advanced study in the US. After completing her degree, she joined the Guangdong People's Publishing House as an editor where her involvement in Chinese literature and contemporary Chinese philosophy deepened. Her father, Xikun Yao, is a veteran of China's epic Long March, and mother, Fengying Gao, was an active revolutionary during the Sino-Japanese War. As a Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution, Xiaobo experienced China in isolation and turmoil. Xiaobo was born in Guangzhou, China. Her web site is www.xiaobogarden.com. |
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Designate – CFO
The designate will be instrumental in establishing the post-launch financial policies and practices overseeing the operational Controllers. He will also follow up on the pre-launch equity finance plan and help take the business to IPO. This individual will be named to selected individuals/associates. Of the 20 years experience in the accounting and finance field, our designated Finance Director has been in the luxury hospitality field for 17 years and uniquely suited to lead this important area.
From 2007 to present, as Finance Director he is overseeing operational accounting, assets, legal and IT for 5-star urban hotel in Mumbai, while overseeing group finance, legal and feasibility functions of three new Real Estate and Hotel ventures in Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Bangalore. He recently completed USD 80M equity and 125M debt financing for the holding group and secured private equity investors for the new mixed use development. With the same group between 2003 and 2006 he was the pre and post opening hotel controller, setting up all accounting procedures, computer systems and related finance, tax and legal matters for the Mumbai luxury hotel. Additionally, during this time, he was the acting General Manager for a few months.
He was the pre and post opening Controller for India’s first destination spa resort in the north of the country between 1999 and 2003 which opened as a premier Asian branded luxury property. The remote location made the task of staff recruitment, training, supply, policy and procedure implementation all the more challenging.
As pre-opening Assistant Controller and post-opening Controller for a leading Indian luxury hotel/resort brand in Goa between 1997 and 1999, our designate established the region’s premier resort destination before moving to the north to open an even more demanding project.
He was a Charted Accountant at a leading India accounting firm in between his first Goa opening project and a Financial Controller post from 1990 to 1997, at theLa Digue Island Lodge, Republic of Seychelles.
Our designate acquired his Bachelor of Commerce from Osmania University, India (1986) and became an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India(1988) while working at Gandhi & Gandhi Chartered Accountants in 1985. |
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Charles Rosenblum - Associate, Finance & Development
Rosenblum, 54, began his business career as a Licensed General Contractor in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and California. He was co-founder of Coastal Consulting and Contracting Corporation, a construction management company that built high-rise condominium projects, hotels, shopping centers and office complexes throughout the Southeast. This company was later sold to Pennsylvania Engineering Company in the early ‘80’s. Rosenblum then founded several real estate development companies that catered to the Neighborhood Retail Market. These operations were sold out in late ’88.
Making the move to Financial Services in ’89, he and his partners purchased Investor’s Equity Life Insurance Company, Old Dominion Insurance Company, Gulf Atlantic Life Insurance Company, and established Honolulu Life Insurance Company. Rosenblum sold his interest in the group to his partners in ’93.
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Rosenblum then formed a financial advisory firm called Rosenblum Partners, LLC in ’94 that focuses on raising capital from both private and public markets for emerging growth companies in the bio-med, bio-tech and high-tech fields. Rosenblum has experience raising funds through institutional private placement and public markets including the Alternative Investment Market, London in which his firm brought two South African Companies to market through successful offerings in ’95 & ’96.
In the late 1990’s Rosenblum became increasingly interested in investing in companies that impacted the environment in a positive way. Since that time Rosenblum has focused his resources on advising companies focused on bio-fuels, sustainable energy production, and sustainable housing and development throughout the world. Rosenblum was one of the five founders of the Low Carbon Accelerator Fund that was taken public on the Alternative Investment Market, London Exchange in November of ’06. The Fund raised $90M US at the IPO. These funds have been used to support emerging growth technologies for sustainable companies whose technologies lower carbon and greenhouse gas emissions.
Rosenblum brings a unique human capital asset to the Harmony Project given his extensive sustainable construction and development, real estate acquisition, and financial structuring experience. As every organization ‘greens’ itself, he will address the Sense of (financial) Purpose for the Harmony Project – merging his recent sustainable development and financial architectural experience as we balance the needs of the Investor, Traveler (client) and Community (employees and their village). |
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Designate – Group Human Resources Director
Attending Semarang State University, majoring in English Language and Literature (until semester IX only), Semarang- Central Java on scholarship between 1994-1997, the Group Human Recourses Director designate easily moved into the lodging business. He worked with the founder of the Harmony Project for three years testing key elements of the model. While doing so he completed the Human Resources Specialization certification with the American Hotel Lodging Association. He is uniquely qualified to lead the global Harmony Project’s critical human resource development standards. Among his accomplishments:
- Indonesia Regional Human Resources Director, International Brand Hotel/Resort. Over-site of 12 properties in the region. He established Human Resources planning, policies and procedures, administration, strategy and programs throughout the region. He also performed audit and management development during numerous property visitation. 2007.
- Director of Human Resources, five star regional brand, Yogyakarta. Invested focus on the overall Human Resources Strategy and the implementation, Facilitating Vision Cycle throughout all levels, setting up Training-Development Focus and Team Development. In 2006, the Employee Satisfaction index increased 5 %, the highest among the group’s properties in Indonesia. The first Executive Development Plan initiatives took place. Was transition leader upon the post earthquake and the change of GM. 2005 – 2007.
- Director of Human Resources, Five star international chain brand, Bandung, Indonesia. Closing 2003 with 12 % increment on employee satisfaction index with team exceeding the budget in terms of financial performance. 2003 – 2005.
- Human Resources Manager, Five star international brand resort, Lombok/Bali, Indonesia. Employee satisfaction index improved 15 % with various Human Resources strategy on rewards and recognition program, internal career development, productivity analysis, communication and leadership, motivational and recreational program. Guest satisfaction index improved 1.5% resulting in the highest score in Asia given by The Leading Hotels of the World Audit. 2002 – 2003.
- Acting Director HR, Five star branded hotel, Surabaya, Indonesia. 2000 – 2002.
- Training and Development Manager, Five star branded hotel, Surabaya, Indonesia. Awarded group Training Award for unit-level training initiatives and for his contribution in the regional customer service initiative roll-out. 1999 – 2000.
- English Consultant for the pre opening and soft opening, international brand hotel, Semarang. 1996 – 1999.
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Designate – Group Facility Development Director
As Director of Engineering & Projects at a major five star brand hotel in Kuala Lumpur since 2005, he directed and managed the engineering and projects departments with a staff of about 50. At the 600 room luxury urban conference hotel he oversaw about ten million dollars in capital improvements and the FLHSS program (fire, life, health, safety & security). He was recognized by HAPA (Hospitality Asia Platinum Award) for ‘excellence in engineering’.
For the same luxury international brand in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 2002 to 2005 he performed the same duties at the 400 room luxury hotel. He oversaw public and restaurant area renovations along with performing regional guidance including projects under development in Thailand project management.
He was Maintenance Engineer at a leading resort in Goa India, from 1989 to 1999 at the 75 acre 137 room luxury resort. He commenced his engineering and project management career as Assistant Engineer at the leading resort in Jaipur India from 1997 while it was in the pre-opening phases. He was Chief Engineer for the first Destination Spa in India from 1999 to 2002. He started in Project Management during pre-opening and shifted to operations post-opening at the 75 room luxury resort.
He has completed his MBA, with honors, from the University of South Australia by October 2006. From the Educational Institute, American Hotels & Lodging he became Certified Engineering Operations Executive. He is a certified Lead Auditor of ISO 14001 environmental management assessment and has been a regular speaker in the Facility & Property Management Congress Asia.
This Designate is set to participate in the Global Harmony Project destination development and operations.
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Uta Birkmayer - Experiential Design Studio
For over a decade Uta (Oo’tah) Birkmayer, founder of Xsense, has been creating memorable and transformative client experiences for developers and corporations all over the world. Holding a masters degree in Hospitality from Cornell University, she has a well-earned reputation for successfully bringing her unique visionary skills to the aid of businesses seeking to provide extraordinary product experiences to their client base. Since 1984, her own work experience has included an active participation in corporate and developmental operations from the USA to Central America, Europe and Asia. Birkmayer and Zak have collaborated on many projects over the past 15 years since they first met in Tokyo.
In the late 1990's, a sophisticated new school of thought regarding meaningful customer service began to emerge. Among the first to recognize its importance and potential, Uta has been instrumental in raising memorable customer interaction to the next level of its evolution. She is highly regarded as an expert in the arena of experiential design, approaching each new client project with an insight and creativity unmatched in this burgeoning industry.
"Our mission is to elevate client interaction far and away beyond just service," Uta emphasizes. "We create a lifetime impression, a core reference against which all other consumer exchanges will be measured." Uta’s role with the Harmony Project will be to lead her consultancy Xense to contribute to the Experiential Design process on selected large project estates. She Last worked with Harmony Project in 2007 on the Playa Dominical project in Costa Rica. Her consultancy Xsense can be found on the web at www.x-sense.biz.
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Elena Lomax-Jensen - Interior Designer
Elena Lomax-Jensen, a graduate of Laney College, 1979, Bachelors of Arts degree in Interior Design, has eight years of resort experience. As Assistant Lodge Manager at Gibb’s Farm for eight years Elena tripled gift shop sales as buyer/merchandiser. She oversaw the three acre of landscape and gardens, oversaw the guest experience in the dining and cottage areas. Working directly with the architect as well as the designer Bradford Zak, she designed, space planned, researched, selected and sourced furniture and textiles, managed the textile and color coordination for each new guest cottage, uniforms, and new gardens.
Prior to coming to Gibb’s Farm she was a successful freelance residential interior designer in California and Washington State for nine years. In the late 1980’s at The Westin Kauai she designed and implemented the resort’s children’s activities programs. In addition she was the island-wide Sales Representative for resort activities. Elena and Bradford have known each other for 20 years, first meeting in Hawaii for the Westin Kauai project.
Juan Ignacio Salom - Costa Rican Art & Community Development
Juan is an architect by training and urban artist at heart. He is the founder of Urban Addicts (www.urbanaddicts.com) which develops information/interpretation media and events for the urban Costa Rican experience. It celebrates -through architecture, history, and anecdotes -the sociology of spaces and urbanism. After receiving degree in Architecture in Costa Rica, he has traveled through Taiwan, Macau, Spain, France and Central America as a performing artist. He came back to Costa Rica and focuses on helping visitors and locals alike experience the authentic Costa Rica. He is currently facilitating the foundation work for social development and the visual and performing arts for the Harmony Project Central America.
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Labiki Menyengera - Indigenous Maasai Healer for East Africa
Traditional Maasai healer Ole Labiki Menyengera opened Osero Forest Clinic in 2005, Gibb’s Farm Tanzania, with the help of his mentor Ole Sululu. Both men are third-generation healers who already have reputable clinics of their own in nearby Arusha and Dodoma. Labiki oversees the traditional healer programs and teams on the Farm, in the field and at the villages. For the first time the Gibb's Farm community has access to quality indigenous medical care through two clinics established under Labiki's management. He leads and trains two other traditional healers and three assistants in this endeavor.
Osero Forest Clinic was established by the Harmony Project to provide health care for the project’s 150 local employees and their families, as well as to develop indigenous healing treatments for the traveler through the African Living Spa. For the past two years, Labiki has been treating the Gibb's Farm travelers as well. For this he has been developing treatments and massage to perform in the cottages and in the newly constructed indigenous dwelling in the Gibb's Farm forest. These new facilities include treatment room, bush dining and kitchen venue, forest trails, even an entire small village for indigenous habitation for his staff. His development efforts to bring indigenous medicine to the traveller through the African Living Spa® project are on going. Additionally, he is participating in the active study of his medicine with the University of Nairobi Medical School and the National Museum of Kenya's phytochemistry department. These efforts are being lead by an Oxford trained anthropologist/ethnobotanist and will serve to bridge indigenous medicine with science. Labiki's aim is to mainstream indigenous medicine systems with appropriate allopathic pharmacology.
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Joe Veit - Financial Consultant
Joe Veit has been corporate finance professional since 1961. Mr. Veit was founder and President of Utilities Leasing Corporation from 1976 to 1992, where he managed and syndicated a $500 million computer-leasing portfolio. Prior to that Joe was a senior executive with United States Leasing International Inc (now a consolidated subsidiary of Ford Motor Company) for ten years during which time he developed several joint-venture profit centers which significantly enhanced USL’s earnings. He was a director of American Electric Power, Inc. He held public office as Board President of a water district in Stinson Beach, CA; Board President, West Marin Senior Services; and a Director of the Environmental Action Committee. Mr. Veit also served as Managing Director of a financial joint venture between United States Leasing International, Inc and The Saint Paul Companies.
Joe has done some low impact development in coastal Marin, restoring houses as well as developing a Medical Center in Stinson Beach, which included an regular medical clinic, a very alternative healing location and a Chiropractor clinic. Joe was a co-founder of The Ventana Foundation, a land trust, which successfully secured a $1.5M grant from California Department of Resources to acquire a ranch in Arroyo Seco, then owned by The Nature Conservancy. He is married to Kathleen Blakeslee and lives in Mill Valley, CA. A serious cook and an avid mountain biker, Joe is also a jazz pianist performing in several venues along Marin’s coast, both as a soloist and with his own trio.
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 Kathleen Blakeslee - Associate, Western Food & Phyto Medicine
Kathy Blakselee received her B. S. in design from the University of Minnesota in 1980 and an M.S. in Ethno Botany from the University of Wisconsin in 1982. She is currently a PHD candidate in Natural Health from Clayton College. Through the years Kathy has accumulated a formative array of experiences. She has been a horticulture teacher, a professional gardener, licensed nurseryman, cooking school instructor, chef and business owner for 23 years. Her extensive knowledge in the rare and medicinal plant world continues to grow as she stays abreast of leading edge developments both in organics and 'green' medicinal plant aspects. She has been a successful business woman creating and owning her own cutting edge plant nursery and cooking school, she helped start the The International Marketing and Herb Growers Association. She is a member of the Herb Society of America, Bioneers Organization, the International Crane Foundation and been featured on the cover of Growers Talk Magazine a professional trade publication along with Horticulture magazine .
She has taught horticulture and landscape design seminars throughout the world, including Australia and France., she continues to support the Organic movement in the US and is a member of Marin Organic in California. Kathy has done plant research throughout the world including the countries of Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, the Amazon, Central America, British Honduras, England , France, Holland and throughout Europe. Her web site is: www.harmonybotanica.com.
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Aquacate Costa Rica - Graphics & CID Advisor
Arete Acuna – Creative Director (Copywriter), Aquacate
Arete has worked for 15 years in the creative field, assuming the position of Creative Director in 2000. After a brief stint in Ogilvy and Bozell in 1997, he initiated a relationship with Jotagequ Grey lasting nine years. During the period Arete worked for local and international companies such as Toyota, Florida Ice and Farm, Brupo Nación (newspaper and magazine publisher), British American Tobacco, Dos Pinos (Dairy), Roche Pharmaceuticals, Diageo and KFC. In February 2006, Arete co-founded Agucate with Mauricio and currently works as Creative Director. Arete has 37 creative awards, including 2 Pregoneros de Bronce (the most respected graphic national award show), 1 Gran Volcan – Best in Show – for the most prestigious TV and print award show in Costa Rica, 2 golds in Caribe (the regional award show), two finals in New York Festivals and 1 film finalist in Cannes.
Mauricio Quirós – Creative Director (copywriter), Aquacate
Mau has seven years experience in the creative advertising field, becoming Creative Director in 2006. He started his career in IPC BATES where he worked with British American Tobacco, Warner Lambert, Taco Bell, among others. Three years later he obtained his Master Degree in Direct Marketing in Madrid. He received a Masters in Creative Advertising at Escuela Superior de Creativos Publicitarios in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a respected creative school for advertising creativity in Latin America. Returning to Costa Rica, he joined Jotabequ GREY working on such accounts as British American Tobacco, Smirnoff Ice, Jonnie Walker, KFC, Dos Pinos, Hyundi, Sardimar, Quiznos Sub, L Nación, Universidad Interamericana, among others. Mau is now the partner and Creative Director at Aguacate. He has six creative awards: one gold in the CRM 141 Worldwide Awards, 1 honor mention in Pregoneros de Bronce, 1 gold and 3 silver in the Gran Volcán.
Ricardo Rojas Molina – Art Director, Aquacate
Since Ricardo was 15 he has been a digital artist. At 17 he was a graphic designer in MAE design studios, Costa Rica. At 19 he joined Jotabequ GREY where he met his future Aguacate colleagues. Noted projects include British American Tobacco, La Florida Ice & Farm, Dos Pinos, Hyundai and Smirnoff.
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Patrick Dunn - Avicultrist & Scholar-in-Residence, Designate
Patrick Dunn, a native from Sacramento, California, has been an active member of the American Federation of Aviculture (AFA) since 1978. At the 1979 AFA convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, he met Robert J. Berry, Curator of Ornithology from the Houston Zoo. It was through this timely meeting that Patrick worked in the Zoological Gardens Tropical Birdhouse for two years. He learned about ornithology in its purest form from Mr. Berry. They continue to share elusive avicultural issues.
Since 1983, Patrick has been guiding bird watching trips to various parts of the world, adding Africa to his itinerary six years ago. He keeps a "life list" of birds which now totals over 3,400 species. In addition, he has been collecting insects since he was five years old and holds a collection of about 10,000 specimens. Patrick was a member of the Kauai film commission for 10 years and supplied birds, animals and other natural history props to the industry for use in videos, television commercials and motion pictures such as "Outbreak" and "Jurassic Park". He is a scuba diver with advanced open water, search and rescue, underwater navigation and dive master certifications. He is also an accomplished Taxidermist. |
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With birds from Texas and Florida, Patrick moved to the island of Kauai in late 1982, where he started a bird farm which eventually grew into the largest avicultural facility in Hawaii, Parrot Jungle of Kauai.
In 1987, he began work on the Westin Kauai Resort’s private zoo, on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Two years later Patrick had stocked, staffed and directed the zoo at a cost of more than $80 million. His task included designing a quarantine facility for incoming hoof-stock, birds and primates as well as two complete commissaries at opposite ends of a 50-acre lagoon. More than 60 species of birds totally about 500 and 35 mammals were exhibited on seven naturally landscaped islands with no bars or cages. It was during this project that Bradford Zak and Dale Jensen met and collaborated in the creation of this special project. Kauai Zoological Gardens was in operation for nearly eight years.
Patrick is preparing to relocate his collection once again. This time to the Osa peninsula of Costa Rica where he has slowly developed 500 acres of private reserve. A laboratory, residence and collection facility has been established. Soon he will be able live in the forest to continue his observation. Dunn, Jensen and Zak have known each other for 20 years, first working together in Hawaii on the Westin Kauai project. |
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Dr John B Heiser - Biologist & Scholar-in-Residence, Designate
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J. B. Heiser is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. A vertebrate evolutionary ecologist, J. B. received his B.S. from Purdue University and his Ph. D. from Cornell University. For the past 35 years has taught a variety of courses in vertebrate comparative anatomy and ecology.
Heiser was born and raised in Indiana and completed his undergraduate degree in biology at Purdue University. He earned his Ph.D. in ichthyology from Cornell University for studies of the behavior, evolution and ecology of coral reef fishes, research which he continues today. For fifteen years he was Director of the Shoals Marine Laboratory operated by Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire on the Isles of Shoals in the Gulf of Maine. While at the Isles of Shoals his research interests focused on opposite ends of the vertebrate spectrum—hagfish and baleen whales. J.B. teaches vertebrate morphology, evolution, and ecology both in the campus classroom and in the field and is recipient of the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award from Cornell University.
His hobbies are natural history, travel and nature photography and videography, especially underwater scuba. He has pursued his natural history interests on every continent and all the world's major ocean regions. Because of his experience he is a popular ecotourism leader having led Cornell Adult University groups to the Caribbean, Africa, Sea of Cortez, French Polynesia, Central America, the Amazon, Borneo, Antarctica, and Spitsbergen in the High Arctic.
He regularly teaches courses held by the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), a consortia of 63 universities that conducts graduate and undergraduate education, facilitates research, participates in tropical forest conservation, maintains three biological stations in Costa Rica and conducts environmental education programs. He is an original co-author of Vertebrate Life, the English language standard text in its field, which is in its eighth edition and has been translated into Italian and Portuguese
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Gemma Enolengila - Anthropologist & Ethnobotanist for East Africa |
Gemma Enolengila, Oreteti's Principal Lecturer, is an anthropologist/ethnobotanist specializing in Maasai traditional health care and environmental issues. She is an academic lecturer for pre-university, undergraduate or (in some cases) postgraduate levels, either in isolation or to complement Oreteti's other activities - e.g. the Maasai and Chagga Cultural Programs, Walking Tours and Short Courses. She is the co-director for Aang Serian, an NGO based in Tanzania with a multiple programs (see below). The aims of the indigenous knowledge course include documenting traditional knowledge in both tribal and non-tribal societies; encouraging youth to take an interest in preserving their cultural heritage; and helping them to develop research skills that they can later use in independent study projects.
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In addition to facilitating the Indigenous Knowledge employee course work at Tanzanian Harmony Project, Gibbs’ Farm, Gemma is heading up the Indigenous Medicine research program in partnership with our Osero Forest Clinic and the African Living Spa®. She is working in partnership with the National Museum of Kenya Phytochemistry Department and the University of Nairobi. Gemma, an Oxford-trained biochemist, is coordinating the identification of the active ingredients of local medicinal plants, and to learn how they produce their healing effects. This information is used by the Clinic’s traditional healers and physician to strengthen their work.
Aang Serian (the name means 'House of Peace' in Maasai language, www.aangserian.org.uk) is an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1999 by young people in Arusha, Northern Tanzania. The NGO is dedicated to preserving indigenous traditions and knowledge, developing culturally appropriate programs of education and training, and promoting inter-cultural dialogue across the world.
Project highlights include:
Noonkodin Secondary School - a new model for rural education in Africa
Intercultural Education (Indigenous Knowledge) curricula
International Summer Schools in Tanzania
Music and Media - documenting traditional songs and knowledge
Rural Women's Health - preventing HIV/AIDS transmission and female genital mutilation
Empowering Maasai women through fair trade jewelry |
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