Our Consultants

Enrique Alejandro Pineda is a Multimedia Technician with experience in independent audiovisual projects and web development. Enrique serves as the CoCoDA Consultant in El Salvador, assisting in offering bilingual communications, graphic design and social media products to highlight the work of CoCoDA in Central America. His expertise in the area of communications is essential for the management of our social media content, increasing the visibility and adaptation of content for different platforms, and expanding the multimediality of the content through the creation...

René Luarca Maíti, better known as Jerry, has worked with CoCoDA for over thirty years. Jerry is our consultant in El Salvador on solar powered water systems. Since the first system he collaborated on the Zacamil II community system in Suchitoto, Jerry has been a key player in the areas of solar panels and retrofitting community water systems to be powered by solar energy. ...

Richard Sanchez is CoCoDA’s assistant delegation director in Nicaragua. Richard has spent most of his life teaching. He has taught both English and Spanish and has been working with foreigners and tourists for many years. For many years, he worked with the La Mariposa Language School where is gained a passion for social justice. Raised in a poor family of farmers, he was fortunate to attend the National Autonomous University of Managua, where he earned a degree in English. Richard says,...

Karilyn Vides is our Communications Director. She has a degree in Communication, which involves Public Relations, Journalism, and Digital Publicity. She also has had the experience of working as an intern at U.S. Embassy in El Salvador as part of the Ambassador’s press team and in Salvadoran American Cultural Center where she worked in marketing and social media areas. Karilyn has been a Spanish Teacher in Spanish School Pájaro Flor since 2009 and has had taught Spanish to many of CoCoDA’s volunteers,...