Staff
Program staff
Amalia Anderson– Project Director, Main Street Project and Co-Director of The Raíces Project
Reginaldo (Regi) Haslett-Marroquin – Project Director, Latino Enterprise Center
Ana Nájera Mendoza – Coordinator of Leadership and Language Access for The Raíces Project
Organizational staff
Kat Vann – Development Director
Emily Gaumer – Communications Director
Kathy Hiltsley– Office Manager
Program staff
Amalia Anderson
Project Director, Main Street Project and Co-Director of The Raíces Project
Amalia Anderson has over 13 years of community and cultural organizing, and community education experience with a specific focus on human rights and anti-racism education, cultural rights and the production of knowledge, as well as movement building. and anti-racism work. During the 2004 election cycle, Anderson was the National Director for Latino Outreach for National Voice. Following the election, she created the Latino Leadership Project, currently a program of the Main Street Project.
Regionally, Anderson is on the Minnesota steering committee of the National Lawyers Guild, a member of the Social Change Grant Committee of the Headwaters Foundation, and on the steering committee of the National Media Justice Network. Nationally, she serves on the boards of the Indigenous Women’s Network and the Progressive Majority’s Racial Justice Advisory. She is also a field representative with the American Indian Treaty Council and an anchor organization steering committee member of the National Media Justice Network. Anderson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in urban studies and history from Macalester College and her Juris Doctorate from Hamline University School of Law.
Reginaldo (Regi) Haslett-Marroquin
Project Director, Latino Enterprise Center
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin began working on economic development projects with indigenous Guatemalan communities in 1988, and has served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program’s Bureau for Latin America and advisor to the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. He founded the Fair Trade Federation and created Peace Coffee, a successful fair-trade coffee company and then went on to work with woodland owners in the Midwest and Guatemala where he organized several forestry stewardship certified cooperative forestry businesses. Haslett-Marroquin was recognized for his work in 1996 when he was named one of the Twin Cities International Citizens of the Year.
A Guatemalan native, Haslett-Marroquin received his agronomy degree from the Central National School of Agriculture and studied at the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala.
Ana Nájera Mendoza
Coordinator of Leadership and Language Access for The Raíces Project
Ana Nájera Mendoza served as a Chicano/Latino youth organizing intern with National Voice and the NOVEMBER 2/2 DE NOVIEMBRE campaign leading up to the 2004 elections. She has also been involved in political participation work with young Latino/as abroad while based in Quito, Ecuador. In the summer of 2005, she worked with the League of Rural Voters as a Latino Leadership Fellow.
Nájera Medoza received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and Latin American studies from Macalester. Her areas of focus were democratization, political participation and cultural studies in U.S. Latino and Latin American communities.
Organizational staff
Kat Vann
Development Director
Emily Gaumer
Communications Director
Kathy Hiltsley
Office Manager