Susan Stevenson is a consultant for organizations focused on improving education and early childhood. From 2010-2016, Susan served as Executive Director of Flamboyan Foundation in Washington, D.C. As founding Executive Director, Susan led the effort to create Flamboyan’s unique approach to family engagement, which focuses on building teacher and school-level capacity to engage with families authentically and meaningfully so children succeed. Susan also led partnership and organizational development at Flamboyan, helping invest funders and city agencies and growing the Flamboyan team to over 25 talented individuals. Under Susan’s leadership, Flamboyan developed a close collaborative partnership with D.C. Public Schools, which is now a national leader in family engagement, and built successful partnerships with many local and national teacher and leader preparation organizations.

Through the combined efforts of Flamboyan staff and partners, in Washington, D.C. today over 1,100 teachers and school leaders have been trained, 54 schools (public and public charter) are implementing intensive family engagement initiatives, and over 40,000 home visits have been performed, including 13,000 in the 2015-16 school year alone. In addition to overseeing the rapid growth of Flamboyan’s family engagement efforts, Susan spearheaded the effort to identify and leverage $3.5 million in additional funding for family engagement during her tenure. She also oversaw the completion of an external evaluation of home visits in DC, which found positive associations between teachers’ home visiting practices and student literacy and attendance.

Prior to joining Flamboyan, Susan co-directed United Way America’s “Success by 6” initiative, a national network of early childhood organizations. She also worked in international development, serving as Vice President, Latin America and Vice President, International for Ashoka, where she led a team of 75 people in 34 offices worldwide to support the efforts of social entrepreneurs. Susan also worked as a management consultant for McKinsey and Company in New York and Argentina. She started her career as a Program Assistant for Save the Children in Bolivia.

Susan earned her Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Spanish from Indiana University. She was the 2016 recipient of the Jocelyn Graves national award for Distinguished Service to Public Education. Susan lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, David Littleton and two teenage daughters.

Susan’s first involvement with AMIGOS was as a volunteer in Oaxaca, Mexico and Olancho, Honduras. She then spent three years on staff, as a Project Supervisor in Tlaxcala, Mexico, an Assistant Project Director in Michoacan, Mexico, and a Project Director in Costa Rica. Susan serves on the Board of Directors of Amigos and is the mother of AMIGOS volunteer Allie Littleton.

Patricia is Senior Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations at Arsenal Capital Partners in New York.

Prior to joining Arsenal Capital Partners, Patricia served as Director at Actis, and before that as the Head of Investor Relations at Irving Place Capital. She started her career in the alternative assets research group at Cambridge Associates.

She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor’s degree with honors from Wesleyan University.

Patricia has been working with AMIGOS for nearly 25 years, first as a participant in Ecuador in 1993. Since then, she has served as a chapter president and the chair of the board of directors.

Kevin Lanier is a vicarious Amigo, having supported his three children when they volunteered as Amigos in Ecuador (Brennan in 2011), Nicaragua (Sophie in 2015), and Costa Rica (Elise in 2017) respectively.  His son and two daughters came home with such strong confidence, independence and cultural appreciation that he vowed to support the AMIGOS organization and its mission further.

Kevin has worked for Royal Dutch Shell in various businesses over his career which has included commercial roles based in Los Angeles, Mexico City, London, and Houston.  Today, Kevin leads multi-functional mergers and acquisitions teams negotiating and closing deals throughout the Americas.  He received his bachelors degree from the University of Notre Dame, a JD from the University of Texas, and an International MBA from Cambridge University.  The international frame of Kevin’s training and work life help him to deeply appreciate the mission of AMIGOS.

Elizabeth joined the AMIGOS leadership in 2013 as part of a long history with AMIGOS.

Elizabeth is the Executive Director, U.S. Vaccine Public Policy and Government Relations for Merck. She joined Merck in 1998.

Prior to Merck, Elizabeth served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal. There she worked in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of Nepal’s nationwide polio eradication initiative. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with a concentration in Health Policy and Management from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Boston College. During graduate school, Elizabeth spent time at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) working in Measles Elimination Activity.

Elizabeth has a long history with AMIGOS, starting as a Volunteer in Paraguay in 1991. She then went on to serve as a Project Supervisor and two time Country Director [at that time, she oversaw multiple projects – 2 in Paraguay in 1993 and the 3 in Costa Rica in 1994], field staff representative to the International Board of Directors and AMIGOS Fellow. From 2005-10, she returned to AMIGOS as a member of the Board of Directors and AMIGOS Fellow.

Ed Cazier is a petroleum geologist with over 35 years of experience in the upstream and midstream oil and gas business. His principal work areas are development planning, 3D geomodeling and business development.

He spent 24 years with BP in a wide variety of technical, commercial and management roles. While at BP, he had the opportunity to live in a number of exotic locations, and work on a large number of high-profile development projects in Alaska, Colombia, Venezuela, Russia and Texas.

During 2008 – 2012, Cazier worked for Maersk Oil in Copenhagen, Denmark on projects in Qatar and Kazakhstan, and worked for Cobalt International Energy during 2012 – 2018 on projects in Angola and the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico.

He currently works as a Geological Advisor at Murphy Oil on development projects in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico.

Cazier has bachelor’s degrees in geology and French literature from Colgate University, a master’s in geology from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA from the Jones School at Rice University. He is a certified petroleum geologist and a reviewer for the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

His AMIGOS experience includes work as a volunteer (Honduras, 1976; Ecuador, 1977), field staff (Route Leader: Honduras – 1978; Assistant Project Director: Honduras – 1979; Project Director: Panama – 1981) and board member (International Board: 2003 – 2012; Foundation Board of Trustees: 2013 – present). He is also the father of two Amigos: Maria Isabella and Brendan, and met his wife (Suky) while working on field staff in Honduras.

Doug Alexander is widely regarded as one of the premier advocates specializing in practice before the Supreme Court of Texas and is listed by Texas Super Lawyers as one of the Top 10 lawyers in Texas. Doug is the 2013 recipient of the Texas Bar Foundation’s Gregory S. Coleman Outstanding Appellate Lawyer Award; was selected as the 2013 Austin Appellate Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America; and is listed in the Texas Lawyer Go-To Guide as one of five “Top-Notch Lawyers” in Texas for Appellate Law.

Doug is recognized as a leader in the appellate bar. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America in Appellate Law; is listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in Appellate Litigation; and has been inducted as a Fellow into the by-invitation-only American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.

Over the course of his career, Doug has served as:

President of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society;
Chair of the Appellate Section of the State Bar of Texas;
Adjunct Professor of Appellate Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law;
Member of the Civil Appellate Practice Commission of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization; and
Law Clerk to the Honorable John R. Brown, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Doug has been Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1990. He is a sought after author and speaker on appellate practice, and has published numerous articles, including the seminal writing, Petition Practice Before the Supreme Court of Texas.

David was an AMIGOS volunteer in the Dominican Republic in 1980 through the Ohio Chapter, which was the second largest chapter in the country at the time. The training and in country experience were outstanding, and inspired him to volunteer in the Peace Corps after college. His sister and brother-in-law were also AMIGOS volunteers in different countries and that time period, and it had a great impact on all of them. They all became physicians partly because of the inspiration from these experiences. More recently, David’s second daughter Sophie was a volunteer in Nicaragua in the summer of 2010.

David reconnected with AMIGOS in 2009, when he was asked to join the Board of Directors. He became the Medical Director of the organization in 2013. He has thoroughly enjoyed working with exceptionally interesting and talented board members, and devoted, passionate, and intelligent staff. David says that it is his privilege to serve in these roles for AMIGOS to support this fantastic mission of making the world a better place by focusing on our youth.

Dr. Andrew Haas is a fellowship trained, board-certified orthopedic surgeon who specializes in Sports Medicine. He completed his undergraduate studies at Yale University and earned his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After his orthopaedic surgery residency at Montefiore, he completed a sports medicine fellowship at Boston University.

Dr. Haas has served as the team physician for several high school and college athletic programs. He was the head orthopedist at the Toughman Triathlon Championships and worked as a physician at the Boston Marathon, U.S. Figure Skating National Championships and the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Hockey Championships.

Dr. Haas was a collegiate-level soccer player and has been participating in marathons and triathlons for over 30 years, including the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. As a life-long athlete himself, Dr. Haas enjoys working with athletes to formulate plans to get them back in the game.

Alma is the Founder and President of Blue Bull Energy “BBE,” a US-certified minority-women owned business. Alma created Blue Bull Energy (BBE) in 2016 to incubate her vision of an energy company that develops business as much as communities. Alma holds a Law Degree from Mexico and a Master’s in International Business from the US. Prior to BBE, Alma has 17 years of experience with BP, where she held several leadership positions and acquired business development and deep operational and commercial knowledge. While at BP, Alma lead transactions in over 10 different countries across Chemicals, Downstream and Upstream business’ where she managed over $4bn USD capital projects and lead large multidisciplinary teams across the world.

Within a short period of time, Alma built a successful brand, developed a mix portfolio and secured contracts with International Oil Companies (IOC) and National Oil Companies (NOC) such as BP, Equinor/Statoil, Petronas, Ecopetrol and other International Service Companies like Cotemar. BBE has formed alliances with some of the most influential consulting firms in the world, with Governmental Agencies and IOCs and NOCs and thanks to her mantra of helping anyone you can, every time you can, built an incredible industry network.

Given Alma’s humble upbringing, Alma is committed to developing and creating opportunities for others; therefore, BBE’s philosophy is to work side by side with its clients to ensure the know-how stays in house as part of BBE’s local talent development agenda. On the community front Alma serves as a Board Member of several USA NGOs and organizations such as “MECA” and “Amigos las Americas.” In addition to serving families in need Alma is committed to protecting the Environment. BBE adopted an Endangered Sea Turtle Conservation Center in Campeche Mexico.