More info, please!

[Seth Sicroff]

I'd like to fill out the Moving Mountains Steering Committee page with a little more information, in order to allow everyone to discern areas of overlapping expertise, experience, or curiosity. Please send me as much as you are willing for me to post about your academic and professional background, current projects, areas of interest -- including URLs for your own Web sites and/or others that you feel we should be aware of. Meanwhile, do check the SC list (sportdevelopmentpeace.org/0mm-about.html) and make sure the details already posted are accurate.
Those of you not already on the Steering Committee should bear in mind that this organizing group is open -- we are eager for your participation, or just input and ideas.
Also, since many of our subscribers are relatively new, it would be helpful if you all posted brief introductory messages, just to give people an idea of who's out there.
Thanks.
Seth

[Wandering Educators]

hi seth - you're doing such a great job with this! Thank you!

my details are just fine. thanks!

as an intro - i am a lifelong traveler and passionate about
intercultural adjustment,communication, and peace. i have a phd in
comparative and international development education from the
university of minnesota. i am also very interested in disability
studies.

i publish a travel site for global educators, http://www.WanderingEducators.com.
that, and unschooling our 7yo daughter, takes up most of our time! we
live on a lovely lake in mid-michigan.

looking forward to meeting you all! cheers, jessie

[Scott MacLennan]

OK, I guess I should say something about me then. I run The Mountain Fund and live half the year in the US and half the year in Nepal. I am married to a Nepali and have two adopted Nepali children. I host about 150 or so volunteers each year in Nepal and my wife runs the volunteer program there. I organize and lead trips to Nepal and Peru, many of them medical camping trips. I have been working primarily in the area of health care in the Rasuwa District of Nepal for ten years and have a hospital and two clinics out there. I am not a doctor (should I add that I have not played one on TV either?) In Peru we have a small volunteer program managed by my long time friend Yure Chavez and we do an annual trek around Mount Ausangate. We hope to establish a small clinic in the area near Ausangate in the next year or two in partnership with the local community out there. Though health has been our main concern for the past several years, we are also working a little in micro finance, education and women's empowerment. Back in the States I own a real estate management company that specializes in operating non-profit owned, low-income housing for the elderly and disabled. I show up to work there once in a while.

Scott MacLennan

The Mountain Fund

Changing the world, one village at a time.

www.mountainfund.org


Come and volunteer with us in Nepal, the adventure of your life.



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From: Wandering Educators <jessica...@gmail.com>
To: MountainLegacy <mountai...@googlegroups.com>
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Date: Thursday, August 20 2009 08:28 PM
Subject: Re: More info, please!

[Sanjay K Nepal]

Since everyone seems to be introducing, I will say a few things about myself:

My name is Sanjay Nepal (it's easy to know I am a Nepali, isn't it?). I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University. I have lived outside Nepal for about 19 years (mostly in Thailand, Switzerland, Canada and the US), but I have been conducted research in Nepal all those years, and a more recent visit this summer. I have published two books on Nepal's tourism issues: 1) Great Himalaya: Tourism and the dynamics of change in Nepal (with Bernard Banzhaf & Thomas Kohler, published by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research 2002) and 2) Tourism and the Environment: Perspectives from the Nepal Himalaya (Himal Books, Nepal and Studien Verlag, Austria 2003). I published a monograph on conservation issues in Chitwan, which went on to become a national bestseller in 2003 (with Karl Weber: Struggle for existence: Park-people conflict in the Royal Chitwan National Park; Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology). I have some 25+ papers on Nepal in various academic journals.

I have a blogsite: http://tikauliplan.blogspot.com It is basically my childhood memories of Nepal. I intend to continue this for a long time.

I am waiting for the US State Dept to take Nepal off its travel advisory, so I can take TAMU students to Nepal for a Study Abroad Program. Originally from Kathmandu (very close toThamel), my parents have a homestead in Chitwan. My wife is from the Philippines and we have two kids (born in Thailand and in Canada), we love hiking, camping, traveling, and exploring the wilderness.

Thanks
Sanjay


Sanjay K. Nepal, PhD
Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX-77845-2261
Tel: 979 862 4080 Fax: 979 845 0446
http://www.rpts.tamu.edu

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