Our Staff
Jocelyn Bates – Director
Jocelyn graduated in 2003 with a BA Honors in Linguistics and Spanish from the University of Sussex, Great Britain and Universidad de Cadiz, Spain and is also a qualified English teacher. After graduation she worked for several years for international conservation and teaching NGO Trekforce, as marketing and public relations manager. She then moved to Belize to run the organisation’s rural teaching programme. In 2006 she came to Xela and worked as coordinator for Habitat Para La Humanidad Guatemala (Habitat for Humanity) and Asociacion Nuevos Horizontes. She joined the Entremundos team in 2009 as Project Coordinator and took over as director in December. She is very excited to lead Entremundos into the new decade and continue to develop it’s vital work supporting and strengthening local organisations
Marloes Nijboer - Volunteer Coordinator
After a bachelor of Human Geography and Planning at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, including spending a semester abroad studying at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, Marloes completed a Masters in International Development at the same university. During her masters she worked for 4 months in Tanzania, Africa, for the Dutch development organization SNV undertaking research & feasibility studies. After graduating in 2007 she moved to Copenhagen, Denmark and worked as a junior analyst for the employee engagement survey company ENNOVA. In April 2009 she initially moved to Guatemala to learn Spanish and gain more international development experience, where she obtained the coordinator position in EntreMundos. She is looking forward to developing the volunteer program for EntreMundos and at the same time learn a lot about local development issues and NGO management.
Ian Taylor - Development Coordinator
Ian joined EntreMundos in March 2008. He has previously worked as a fundraiser in England for a local NGO as well as on development projects in Africa and other parts of Latin America. He holds a BA (Hons.) in Business Administration from Manchester Metropolitan University and a Msc. in Management and Implementation of Development Projects from the University of Manchester.
Valeria Ayerdi - Editor
Valeria has been the editor of the EntreMundos magazine since June 2008. As a local journalist, she has worked and collaborated for different newspapers and magazines in Guatemala for the last 10 years including: El Quetzalteco, Revista Este País, Revista Magna Terra, Periódico La Hora, Periódico Universidad and Editorial Serviprensa. She combines her work in EntreMundos with a column in the weekly La Noticia. All of her work is characterised by a consequent posture that has the vision to influence the building of a democratic, inclusive, self-critical and balanced country.
