Martin Burt

Martin Burt

Martin Burt is the founder of Fundacion Paraguaya,a Paraguay based non-profit that has helped to fund,among many other things, the Mbaracayu Forest School. In addition, Burt the visionary leader who…

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Nilda Alderete

Nilda Alderete

When fifteen year-old Nilda first arrived at the school, treat she was so shy she was unable to even utter her own name during an introductory 'icebreaker' game, web  and instead broke down in…

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Claudia Crinagi

Claudia Crinagi

Claudia is an indigenous girl from the endangered Aché tribe. The Aché have lived as hunter-gatherers for millennia in the Mbaracayu forest, online but their first contact with ‘civilization’ was not until…

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Bianca Caroline Soares

Bianca Caroline Soares

Bianca is a feisty and fearless Brasiguaya (girl born in Brasil but raised in Paraguay) who dreams of becoming the president of Paraguay some day. After meeting her, it's hard…

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Celsa Acosta

Celsa Acosta

Celsa is the incredibly inspiring director of CEM.

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Numilla Gomez Portillo

Numilla Gomez Portillo

Numilla is a young Ava Guarani girl who faces her deepest fears and even risks her life for her education.

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Kate McMahon (co-producer) is a documentary journalist who began her career in 1998 as an Associate Producer for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Her most recent documentary, pilule “The Programmers, sales ” is about game-changing women in computing (distribution in 2015.) Past documentaries include FRONTLINE: Life and Death in Assisted Living (2013); FRONTLINE: Nuclear Aftershocks (2012); FRONTLINE: The Vaccine War (2010); FRONTLINE: Sick Around America (2009); FRONTLINE: Sick Around the World (2008); FRONTLINE: The Meth Epidemic (2006) and Andrew Jackson: Good, search
Evil and the Presidency
(PBS, 2008). In 2004 she associate produced ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room and in 2001, Kate covered the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City for ABC News. She went on to work for NOW with Bill Moyers covering the nexus of business and politics in Washington, D.C. Her on-going production of Inside the Psychologist’s Studio is a popular web series for the Association for Psychological Science.

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