Linda joined ACTS in 2006, choosing ACTS specifically for its focus on community building in one of the most forgotten areas of the world. In 2023, she retired from Dartmouth’s Cancer Center where she led global health research, and education and training of investigators. Her contacts in Honduras and enthusiasm created a pathway for cancer research in Honduras that facilitated co-leadership among U.S. and Honduran investigators and others in Latin America on projects related to cancer prevention and detection and frugal innovations in medicine. Planning with Hondurans to improve their communities is what Linda thinks sets ACTS apart from other organizations.

Suzanne Burgos is a retired Physician Assistant who worked many years in both Primary Care and Hospital Medicine at Gifford Medical Center in Randolph Vermont. She has a special interest in health care in the developing world. Suzanne works closely with health care professionals in El Rosario and leads ACTS’ Health Committee. She is an energetic traveler and enjoys the collaborative work ACTS does with Honduran partners in El Rosario and other communities. “None of what we do would be possible without our Honduran friends helping us to improve their communities.”

Helen joined ACTS after traveling to Honduras with ACTS for the first time in 2011. Helen is a retired community planning and development professional, having worked in the planning and development fields in Canada and the US, with a short stint in Australia. She and her family lived in the Dominican Republic for two years, where she picked up a rudimentary level of Spanish. She chose to work with ACTS due to its long-term commitment to tackle a broad range of development issues in a developing nation.

Jeff lives in Lyme, NH and in 2024 took over as ACTS treasurer from Hart Silverwood. For over 25 years, Jeff was CFO at Tetakawi a ‘shelter services’ firm in Tucson providing services to manufactures in Northern Mexico. He is a graduate of Miami University (Ohio), the Thunderbird School of Global Management (Arizona) and speaks Spanish. Jeff first visited Honduras with ACTS in 2024 and looks forward to working with the teams there and in the US as they rise to the challenge of growing the Colegio and ongoing programs.

Matt leads ACTS Education Committee with responsibility for education at all ages, both degree-granting and in non-credit settings. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 2012, and lives in New York working in algorithmic trading. He maintains a strong interest in education and economic development. Matt made his first trip to El Rosario in 2019 as part of the Fuerza Honduran teenage leadership training program inspired his long-term involvement with teens and education. Excited to continue working with ACTS and the local Honduran communities, Matt joined the Steering Committee in 2022.

Betsy, a long-time public-school science teacher, leads ACTS’ Agriculture Committee with a specific focus on implementing regenerative agriculture in the extremely challenging farming lands of mountainous rural Honduras. She has been particularly effective at recruiting international agricultural experts to join this work. Betsy is an avid gardener, vocalist, and enjoys outdoor adventures. She and her family lived in South Africa for a time, and later she and her husband lived in Brazil. Home is in Plainfield New Hampshire. She joined ACTS leadership in 2015.

Casey is Associate Director for Global Studies at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. She holds an Ed.D. in Global Education, an M.A. in International Education, and a B.A. in Japanese Language & Literature. She has worked in the field of International Education for over twenty years, including four years in Japan at the Board of Education in Hiroshima Prefecture. Casey is an active member of the Hanover Rotary Club. She is on the Advisory Board of the Africa Academy for Careers in Rwanda. Casey enjoys reading, being outdoors, and exploring the world through travel.

David is a dentist with longstanding commitment to developer of the dental clinic in El Rosario, is Dave’s mentor and recruited Dave for ACTS team that Dave now leads. Most recently, Dave and Bob funded and installed digital dental x-ray equipment in El Rosario. Dave graduated from Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry, was in private practice in Concord NH from 1985-2021, practices at three residential care settings, staffs a health care teaching site for the University of New England Dental School in Portland ME and is adjunct faculty there. Dave has also been part of dental teams on several missions to Central America and Peru.

Heather has worked as an agricultural educator in New Hampshire since 2009. Prior to that she worked in international development in Madagascar for five years teaching people to build fuel efficient wood cookstoves. She has a BS in Natural Resources and an MS in Plant Soil and Environmental Sciences. When she isn’t working, she loves to hike, read, travel and spend time with her family in Maine.

Anahita graduated from Dartmouth College in 2023 with a double major in Biology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; as an undergrad, she conducted research on health inequities across Dartmouth's economics, history, and epidemiology departments. She lives in Boston and works as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman. Anahita has a passion for scientific communication and plans to pursue a career as a physician-scientist in the fields of rural and community healthcare. She maintains the ACTS website and is working on the organization's communications strategy.

Erin Lynch grew up in the Monadnock region and graduated from Boston University School of Education in 2002. After teaching for a few years, she decided to change career paths and subsequently began working in oncology research, which brought her to the Upper Valley in 2013. Her Master of Science in Clinical Trials Regulatory Affairs is from Northeastern University, she worked at Dartmouth Cancer Center’s Office of Clinical Research, and now leads clinical trials administration at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She has special interests in bilingual education, global oncology, and cancer prevention.

Peter is a family physician with over 40 years of community, rural, academic and international practice experience. He practices at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, NH, and teaches at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He first volunteered in Honduras in 1999 after Hurricane Mitch and joined ACTS in 2000 after traveling to El Rosario with Dean Siebert and seeing ACTS’ community development model in action. The goals of ACTS are closely aligned with Peter’s efforts to promote social justice and empowerment in impoverished and disenfranchised populations. In 2006, named New Hampshire Academy of Family Practice as Family Physician of 2006.

Charlie grew up in Maine and graduated from Dartmouth and Middlebury with a B.A. and an M.A. in English. Beginning in 1990, he worked overseas in rural development with a focus on children and education in Vietnam and Honduras. He examined teens’ opportunities for secondary education in the El Rosario area and found them to be minimal, expensive, and low-quality. With tremendous drive, he challenged himself to develop a secondary school and to make it entirely free for students. This ‘colegio’ is in the heart of El Rosario and draws students from many communities for a free quality education.

Juliana lives in New York and works in an operating role at a consumer tech company. She has a BA from Dartmouth College and MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Jules first traveled to El Rosario in 2011 leading La fuerza para el futuro, a leadership development program for Honduran teens. She co-founded Fuerza Honduras, a partner to ACTS, and joined the ACTS Steering Committee with a specific interest in facilitating teens’ post-secondary education and career planning.

Lisa is the Director of Community Outreach and Engagement at Dartmouth Cancer Center. She specializes in public health and education. She has worked in Armenia, Ireland, Spain, Tanzania, and the United Kingdom managing research and health care projects. Lisa taught public health at Dartmouth’s MPH program and in universities in Armenia and Tanzania. With ACTS, Lisa works on health and educational programs in Honduras.

Jennifer has a BA in anthropology and MS in community health and epidemiology. She is a professional genetic genealogist. Her longstanding interest in Central America, began with a visit to Honduras as a high school student working with an archaeological team in the 1980s, followed by five years in Costa Rica. She returned to Honduras in 1999 to volunteer for a home-building project in the wake of Hurricane Mitch. Jennifer manages ACTS’ annual fundraising appeal and contributes her Spanish language and community health skills to various projects.

John is a cardiac surgeon, and with his wife, Karen, a retired dental hygienist, has participated onsite in Honduras as a clinical provider. Additionally, John is a member of the Steering Committee and the Health Committee with specific interest in local medical care, development of local water supplies, and continuing to advance a strong dental presence in El Rosario and surrounding communities.

Hart has been involved with ACTS for over 40 years, originally going to El Rosario as a member of the “Durham” team. He has been the Treasurer for decades and a member of the Board of Directors and now the Steering Committee. His primary focus has been the careful management of ACTS’ funds and maintaining the organization’s financial records. In early 2024, Hart handed the treasurer’s role over to Jeff Prileson. Hart’s career as a polymers chemist in technical and management R&D positions with several industrial companies involved development of medical devices.

Brad grew up a farm kid in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains. He moved east to attend veterinary school at Cornell in 1982 and practiced mixed animal veterinary medicine in New Hampshire. Now retired from private practice, Brad devotes substantial time and effort into ACTS focusing on agriculture and working with ACTS to improve animal husbandry and agricultural practices in the area. Brad is an accomplished photographer and ACTS’ photo archivist and does ACTS’ photo finishing.

Dean is Professor Emeritus at the Geisel School of Medicine and has been affiliated with ACTS for decades and until 2013, was the president. He has been to El Rosario countless time and over his career has sustained a passion for indigenous peoples in the U.S., Honduras, and elsewhere. Dean is the recipient of the Albany Medical College Alumni Humanitarian Award and the Geisel School of Medicine, John H. Lyons award for humanism in Medicine.