Help community efforts to protect Peruvian Forests

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Project Personnel

Niyanta Spelman - Executive Director

Niyanta Spelman is the founder and executive director of Rainforest Partnership. Formerly, she was the owner and principal consultant for PPPMC Inc, a public sector-oriented management consultancy she formed in 2000. She has also worked for many Texas agencies and non-profits. Niyanta lived in Tanzania, India and England for the first part of her life and has called Texas home for over 20 years.

Maurine Winkley - Director of Operations

Maurine is an Austinite who has combined her love for entrepreneurship and finance with her desire to create long-term sustainability through environmental improvements and awareness. Her background includes carbon financing, financial analysis, and business management. She has worked with nonprofits and for profits, including her own business, both domestically and internationally.

Lucia Eslava - Peru Program Director

Lucia Eslava, a native of Lima, Peru, has been helping Rainforest Partnership (RP) since April 2008, traveling with RP Executive Director, Niyanta Spelman, and Board Chair, Hazel Barbour, to rainforest communities in central Peru and acting as the point person with RP’s potential partner communities.