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Rodrigo Marion, an Urban Planner with the Central New Hampshire Planning Commission, received a Bachelors Degree in Economics and a Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University at Albany. Rodrigo has been coaching with the Olympic Develop Program (ODP) in New York and New Hampshire for the past 4 years. He was also coach of the U-14 girls premier team and U-10 boys at Seacoast United Soccer Club during 2007 and 2008. Rodrigo played for the University at Albany as team captain during his four years there. During his college career he was nominated to the all-Rookie and all-Conference team, and was named the University at Albany Men’s soccer MVP. Rodrigo also played with the Western Massachusetts Pioneers professional team, The Strongest Club in La Paz, Bolivia, and U-17,19, 20, and 23 Bolivian National Team pool.
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH, Max Latona received his B.A. from Canisius College (Buffalo, NY) in 1993, and his doctorate in Philosophy from Boston College in 2001. He is published in several prominent journals in his field, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Catholic Philosophical Association’s Young Scholar Award (2004), Manchester Union Leader’s “40-Under-40” Designation (2007), and (twice) the Saint Anselm College Abbot Gerald McCarthy O.S.B. Faculty Member of the Year Award (2006, 2008). Max Latona is also a facilitator for a federally funded initiative at Saint Anselm College entitled “Learning Liberty,” which is concerned, in part, with enhancing civic engagement among students in higher education. He has also played soccer since a youth, coached youth soccer for 10 years, and served as a member of the Board of Directors of Tritown Youth Competitive Soccer for three years.
Maria Andrea Lopez Duarte received her B.A. from Clark University in 2006, and her M.A. in Public Administration from Clark University in 2009. A Consultant/Analyst for Public Consulting Group in Boston, MA, she has performed extensive research on public education.
Edward McGushin is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH. He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1991, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston College in 1995 and 2002, respectively. He has published a prominent book, as well as numerous articles in his field. He recently taught a course in a local women’s prison, supported by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council. That course was also featured on NHPR radio, and later led him to receive the New Hampshire Campus Compact President’s Good Steward Award in 2007. Among other courses, he teaches the Philosophy of Social Justice, and courses that involve service learning for students. He has played soccer since a young child.
“Profe Cajeta” has played professional soccer for the Bolivian Soccer Federation for 16 years. He worked as a head coach for six professional teams in the Bolivian Professional League. As a head coach of “Club Oriente”, he achieved the most important cup in South America, the “Copa Libertadores de America.” Profe Cajeta has organized and directed extensive conferences, workshops, and symposiums for coaches and youth soccer camps. For the past 22 years he has been with the “Tahuichi Aguilera” Academy School as a consultant and later as a technical director for coaches.
Jorge holds an Economics degree from the State University of New York at Albany, where he graduated with honors in May 2005. He currently works in New York's financial sector, but has always managed to make time to serve his community. An avid soccer player himself, Jorge also comes from a family tradition of helping others; he is the oldest son of community activist and leader Jorge Francisco and Patricia Margarita, who among other things, worked with children with leprae in the outskirts of Angola, in Africa. Jorge was born in Barranquilla, Colombia and understands the value of athletics, as he has consitantly experienced how people of all races and socio-economic backgrounds come together as one, under the universal language of soccer.
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