Staff

Program staff

Amalia Deloney– Senior Fellow
Reginaldo (Regi) Haslett-Marroquin – Director, Rural Enterprise Center

Organizational staff

Kat Vann – Director, Communications & Development
Kathy Hiltsley– Office Manager

Program staff

Amalia Deloney has over 14 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, Deloney was the National Director for Latino Outreach for National Voice.

Regionally, Deloney is a member of the Social Change Grant Committee of the Headwaters Foundation, and a board member of the Headwaters Foundation for Justice. Nationally, she serves on the boards of the Indigenous Women's Network and the Progressive Majority's Racial Justice Advisory. She is also a community editor for Twin Cities Indy Media focusing on Media Justice. Deloney 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
Director, Rural 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. He received the 2008 Service to Mankind Award from the Northfield and College City, MN Sertoma Clubs, as well as their dsitrict award.

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.

Kathy Hiltsley
Office Manager

Kathy Hiltsley has worked as a volunteer and staff member in the nonprofit world for more than 20 years. Prior to joining Main Street Project, she worked at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, providing administrative support for everything from event coordination, to youth volunteer and librarian supervision to building management. Hiltsley brought her skills and commitment to social justice issues to Main Street Project in 2007, and serves as office manager.

Kat Vann
Director, Communications & Development

Kat Vann joined Main Street Project in 2008 as director of communications and development. Vann is new to nonprofit work, but not to the power of communications in building relationships and advancing change. She has more than 25 years of communications experience, primarily in the health care industry and including strategic communications planning and implementation. She's pleased to focus her efforts on helping rural residents make their voices heard.