Future Generations provides three modes of education.
Robert Fleming is an eminent natural historian with extensive global experience. Following his work with the Smithsonian’s Office of Ecology, he worked with his father Robert Fleming, Sr. to publish the Field guide, Birds of Nepal, and two subsequent editions.
For the last thirty years, Dr. Fleming has been exploring the 2200-mile-long Himalayan Mountain System, as well as most of the biologically distinct regions of Asia. Bob has also studied the biodiversity of ten eastern and southern African countries and thirteen Pacific and Indian Ocean island groups. He has led numerous trips to all these places.
Henry Perry has a long and distinguished career in health care, field research, administration and teaching. He served as the Director General and CEO of the Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti, was the technical advisor for maternal and child health in Bangladesh with the ICDDR, B: Center for Health and Population Research and the BASICS Project, and was the founder of Curamericas (formerly Andean Rural Health Care) and director of its activities in Bolivia. Dr. Perry has a longstanding involvement in field work and writing about community-based primary health care and has published extensively in these areas. He also has a broad experience in working directly with communities, community leaders, and field staff to strengthen community programs.
Henry is also Adjunct Professor at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University and Associate in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University.
Daniel Taylor’s work with communities includes a village-based childhood in India, family planning education in Nepal, field-based educational programs in the United States and Himalaya, assisting college-bound students in West Virginia, promoting community-based nature protection in Nepal, China, and India, and systematic scholarship in strategies for sustainable and equitable change. Dr. Taylor is President of Future Generations and had prior positions with Johns Hopkins University, Woodlands Mountain Institute, and the United States Agency for International Development. Daniel is the author of three books and more than thirty articles.
Dr. Metangmo is a Doctor of Medicine and a Senior Health Professional with over 20 years of public health and management experience and leadership. He has provided technical management leadership in the form of program design, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation in Child Survival, Maternal and Child Health, Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS, and Topical Diseases Control including TB in over 30 developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Previously, Dr. Metangmo worked as the Child Survival Senior Health Programs Specialist. In that time he backstopped ten Child Survival Projects representing over $18 million in Ghana, Nepal, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Cameroon.
Elaine Barge directs the Strategies for Trauma Awareness Resilience (STAR) of the Practice Institute, Eastern Mennonite University. She has worked extensively in El Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala, and across Latin America and Caribbean with communities suffering human rights abuses. She directs STAR workshops and facilitates experiential learning in human rights and trauma recovery.
Karen Edwards is currently a professor of mathematics at Paul Smiths College. She has worked in the education field for 26 years and is a former division head in the areas of forestry and natural resources. Karen is pursuing a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Albany.
Sheila McKean spent five years at the Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia. These past twelve years, she has worked as a protected area consultant in Bolivia. Dr. McKean is the author of nearly twenty articles, specializing in tropic soil science.
Mike Rechlin has practiced sustainable forestry and protected areas management in the United States, Nepal, India, and Tibet for thirty years. Dr. Rechlin has extensive teaching experience and has designed educational programs for many international groups visiting the Adirondack Park of New York State. Mike holds academic appointments at Principia College and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Since 1991, Daniel Robison has held numerous international contracts for strategic planning in and around protected areas in Latin America. Dr. Robison presently lives, researches, and consults in Bolivia with regard to tropical soil science, protected areas, and the environmental impact of cattle and horse productivity. The author of more than thirty articles, he combines theoretical knowledge with first-hand farming knowledge of farming in rainforest ecosystems. With his wife, Dr. Sheila McKean, Daniel farms 25 ha near Rurrenabaque, Bolivia.
A former Fulbright Fellow and professor of peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, Lisa Schirch has worked in every region of the world as a researcher, trainer, and facilitator in identity-based conflicts, conflict and violence analysis, and civilian peacekeeping. Dr. Schirch consults with a network of strategic partner organizations
throughout the United States, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Carl Taylor is professor emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. He has been engaged in international health for eight decades. He has an abiding concern to promote equity and bring better health to the disadvantaged.
Beginning with helping in clinical care in the jungles of India as a young child, Dr. Taylor has worked in more than seventy countries and chaired numerous international expert groups.
From 1961 to 1984, Carl was Chairman of the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins University. He has also held professorships at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, India, and was the UNICEF Representative in China from 1984 to 1987. He has numerous honorary doctorates and professorships and has published six books and nearly two hundred articles.
Dan Wessner’s
work in international education and development links scholars of
developing and superpower states. Most of his immersion into the
villages and cities of non-western countries has been in China,
Thailand, and Vietnam.
Dan also teaches International and Political Studies at Eastern Mennonite University, specializing in human rights regime-building, intercultural communication, comparative law/politics, Southeast Asian affairs, and the role of non-state actors in international development. Dan is the author of some twenty articles and is completing a book on Vietnam’s state-societal relationship.
Laura Altobelli is a public health professional specializing in international maternal child health and nutrition. Dr. Altobelli is a professor in the School of Public Health and Administration of the Peruvian Cayetano Heredia University in Lima.
Laura has worked for many years in Latin American community health programs, beginning as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1970s. She continues as a researcher, evaluator, and project consultant on community health and nutrition programs for a variety of international cooperation agencies and NGOs. She conceptualizes, designs, and provides guidance for the work of Future Generations/Peru among hundreds of community health clinics and programs throughout Peru. She also teaches Pedagogy of Place for the students’ residential in Peru.
Frances Fremont-Smith has directed the expansion of Chinese language, culture, and history programming in international schools and U.S.-based academies with core international education components. Most recently, Ms. Fremont-Smith has given direction to Future Generations scaling-up of community-based environmental and health projects in the Tibet Autonomous Region. She also teaches Pedagogy of Place for the students’ residential in Tibet.
Ben Lozare leads the JHU/CCP Training and Performance Improvement Division and the development of SCOPE (Strategic Communication Planning and Evaluation), a computer-aided communication planning software used in training workshops. Dr. Lozare has more than 25 years of experience in research, teaching, and practice in international and development communication. He has helped develop and conduct the Gates Institute series of Leadership Seminars for Reproductive Health.
Henry Mosely is a professor in the Department of Population and Family Health Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He has served as Director of Training for the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute of Population and Reproductive Health at JHU. He is a former Child Survival Program Officer for the Ford Foundation and is a former Director for the Cholera Research Laboratory/ICDDR in Bangladesh. Dr. Mosely works in collaboration with Ben Lozare in the development and delivery of STARGuide software for the Gates Seminar in Strategic Leadership and Management for Population and Reproductive Health.
Christie’s years living in Cameroon, France, and Austria and her work with international students in the Texas State Intensive English program bring a depth of experience to her roles as registrar and interactive online coordinator of the Master’s program. She has also taught in the English department of a local community college and is involved with Literacy West Virginia, a non-profit organization promoting adult literacy.
Elizabeth Holdeman combines the fine arts, English language, curriculum design, and inter-cultural studies to provide Future Generations students with innovative web-based language learning and tutoring. She has worked
extensively in Greece, China, Vietnam, and U.S. public schools. She sits on a mental health board in Virginia and formerly directed a Peace Arts Center in Ohio.
LeeAnn’s experience in administration assists her in providing support to potential students throughout the admissions process. She also oversees the community web profiles for each Future Generations student, past and present. She is completing her Master’s Degree in Integrated Marketing and Communications.