Ana Luisa Moran Ahern, Executive Director

Originally from Washington, DC, Ana Luisa spent part of her childhood in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. In 2004, she returned to Honduras to co-found the Organization for Youth Empowerment (OYE), which provides education, leadership training, and capacity building to urban youth. In 2015, First Lady Michelle Obama awarded OYE the International Spotlight Award as part of the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards.

She holds a BA from Barnard College and studied socio-economics at the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands and the Center for Development Studies in India. She completed a master’s degree in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California. Her contributions to social and environmental justice include supporting women’s movement building in Latin America, Africa and Asia, training indigenous youth in eco-tourism in Honduras, and conducting research in a genetics lab monitoring fish spawning activity in the Gulf of California.

Luis Flores, Bookkeeper