Jose "Pepe" Marcos-Iga

Border Programs Coordinator at the Environmental Education Exchange
 
Areas of Expertise and Interests
Communication and collaboration facilitation
Capacity building
International/bi-national collaboration
 
Background (Professional Accomplishments and NAAEE Contributions)
•    Coordinating the Arizona Association for EE’s regional, bi-national conference, which gathered close to 200 participants from the US-Mexico border region.
•    Managing and editing a bilingual database, list serve and newsletter as part of the Border-Wide EE Coalition efforts.
•    Overseeing the translation, editing and printing of NAAEE’s Nonformal Guidelines for Excellence in Spanish.
•    Offering workshops in the border region to Spanish speaking educators, as a member of EETAP’s Guidelines Trainer’s Bureau,
•    Using the guidelines in Spanish as part of a major wetland education materials and programs review for NAWCA Mexico.
•    Co-chair the Spanish crosscutting strand efforts during NAAEE’s 2005 conference in Albuquerque, NM.
•    Conference sub-committee chair for the Diversity committee, since October 2005.
 
Candidate’s Goals for NAAEE
I would like to see NAAEE becoming truly representative of the whole North American region, including Mexico and Canada. I would love to see NAAEE as a capacity building and collaboration force in Mexico, through an increased exchange of knowledge and experiences across the border. I also would love to see the materialization of the first Mexican affiliate of NAAEE, which maybe one day could evolve into a network of regional affiliates of NAAEE. I want to help NAAEE in its efforts to elevate the quality of EE regionally, nationally and internationally, but also to help elevate EE’s importance and place in everyone’s agenda, from state and federal governments to the private sector.

(Voting Member of NAAEE for the Following Years: Since 2004-Present)