Bruce Janklow has been working with Caminos de Agua as an advisor and volunteer since 2017 and has been the President of our board since 2021. He has a rich background in advertising, marketing and strategic planning and held several CEO, President and Senior Partner positions during his forty-two year business career. Bruce has also served on the board of a number of not-for-profit boards in the U.S. and Mexico in the environmental, arts and teens at risk areas. He has been a resident of San Miguel de Allende since 2007 and is also an accomplished fine arts photographer.

Agustin Madrigal, has been the Director of Salvemos el Rio Laja for 11 years and coordinates conservation, soil restoration, and water projects in local rural communities as part of the National Program in Watersheds and Cities, funded by the Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza, A.C.

Josh has been a friend and board member of Caminos de Agua for over a decade. He has worked for Guggenheim Investments, a financial services institution, for over 15 years. Currently he is the Head of FP&A and Finance Systems. Prior to joining Guggenheim, Josh worked at Protiviti, an audit and consulting firm, performing IT security and compliance audits around the world. At Caminos de Agua, Josh works closely with the Executive Director to prepare and analyze financial statements and budgets.

George Terrell has been a community organizer and social justice activist for 45 years. A lawyer by training, his current practice is limited to the pro bono representation of several non-profits. He is one of the founders of Caminos de Agua and has worked in Mexico since 2006, first with indigenous communities in Chiapas in capacity building programs teaching earthblock construction and later in Guanajuato with Caminos. Since the early 1980’s he has helped lead Project Neighbors (Neighbors Corp.) a grass roots community organization in Valparaiso, Indiana. Using local volunteers to help improve the lives of marginalized people, Project Neighbors has built a childcare center and a community center serving a diverse population, a health care center now serving the uninsured and under-insured in five counties, and has built over 70 homes and two women’s shelters and operates a community radio station - WVLP. George also serves on the Board of the Asset Based Community Development Institute. In his earlier years, he worked as a union organizer and in union democracy campaigns in the Steelworkers Union.

Charlie has a background in advanced materials development – spending 10 years at a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory and +10 years in industry working at international manufacturing operations. He specializes in the development and deployment of appropriate technologies for emerging economies, in areas such as alternative energy, improved cooking appliances, clean water, and sanitation. Dr. Sellers is familiar with a very wide range of materials and technologies, using them to solve problems employing a human-centered design approach to engineering. He believes in the value of mentoring startup companies, using his experiences in the business world to encourage social entrepreneurs to commercialize new products that will make a difference. He has been with Catapult Design since it evolved from the San Francisco chapter of Engineers Without Borders and enjoys working in areas such as test development and data analysis, quality assurance, risk management, manufacturing in limited-resource settings, and field deployments for new product testing. He now resides in San Miguel de Allende and supports the Caminos de Agua Technology Development Team in a variety of areas including point-of-use filtration methods and the Groundwater Treatment System (GTS).

Born in east North Carolina, Hardy attended the University of North Carolina graduating with a BS in Business Administration. He spent just under 40 years working in the Wealth Management sector before retiring from Morgan Stanley in 2019. During his working career, Hardy served in various nonprofit organizations: The High Museum of Art of Atlanta, Project Open Hand of Atlanta, Asheville City Schools Foundation, and The Wortham Center for The Performing Arts of Asheville. Hardy and his husband John now live full-time in San Miguel de Allende. At Caminos de Agua, Hardy fulfills a range of responsibilities encompassing fundraising support, managing donor relationships, and conducting outreach.

Dr. Adler is a teaching fellow at University College of London, one of Caminos de Agua's main University partners, in the Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, and he is also the founder of IRRI-Mexico. Dr. Adler has worked in the Independence Watershed region for years; he was involved with an early water quality study of the region in 2005-2006 and ultimately installed numerous rainwater harvesting systems in rural community elementary schools to combat the high arsenic and fluoride contamination they were encountering. He received his Ph.D. in 2014; his thesis entitled: Application of filtration and silver-ion based disinfection to purify rainwater for potable uses in rural communities of Mexico. These rainwater systems are now maintained by Caminos de Agua.

Dr. Isabel Garcia, M.D. is an expert on many of the public health challenges of children who are exposed to excessive levels of arsenic and fluoride in the water, namely the impacts of kidney damage and kidney failure. Dr. Garcia is originally from Mexico City and received her professional education in Medicine at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), and received a specialist in Clinical Pediatrics from Hospital Español de México. Dr. Garcia lived in Guadalajara, Jalisco for 30 years where she practiced pediatrics and was later invited to be the Head of operating rooms at Hospital Ángeles. In San Miguel de Allende, Dr. Garcia worked at the Tec 100 Clinic and the hemodialysis unit group of Médica Santa Carmen.

Javier is an active architect with over 18 years of experience with a keen focus on Water Sustainability. He has completed a wide variety of projects in several parts of the world including Germany, the US, Dubai, and Mexico (www.toniclab.mx). Born and raised in San Miguel de Allende, Javier has always been aware of the issues but most importantly the opportunities that the water crisis in our region represents in our society. His Master thesis “Cachinches Green Corridor” has been considered by Adaptur and GIZ Germany as one of 3 projects that have the potential to stop the effects of climate change in our watershed. This lifetime project is a proposal to regenerate the ecological corridor and create a Linear Park on the Cachinches Stream in San Miguel de Allende; restoring its perennial flow and reactivating the environmental services of this important body of water for the benefit of the entire community.

Lyn Knox worked at the Francis Family Foundation for 20 years as a Program Officer for their grant-making program before retiring and moving to San Miguel de Allende in 2017. Previously, Lyn worked as the Director of Private and Family Foundations of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Lyn has “worked in philanthropy in one form or another for 30 years. From the Peace Corps in Africa, to six years with the San Francisco Mayor’s Office, through experiences on the staff of two California non-profits and as a consultant grant writer before returning to Kansas City.” Lyn, also a former registered dietitian concerned about nutrition and health, began volunteering with Caminos de Agua in 2017 before joining the board in 2019. She is the founder of the organization’s Institutional Funding Committee, and she works closely with the Executive Director on grant opportunities.

Robert Lerner is a biologist, technologist and serial entrepreneur. Rob has led start-ups in renewable energy, outdoor gear, and technology development, and was charged with designing a large-scale biodiversity conservation/sustainable development in eastern Panama. His business experience spans start-ups, fundraising, product development (multiple patents), sales and marketing, and full-charge financial responsibility. Rob is also the director of i3: ideas that inform and inspire, the San Miguel based nonprofit lecture series. Rob was Board President of Caminos de Agua from 2016-2019. He is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico, where he has resided since 1996, and in San Miguel since 2012 with his wife, artist Diane Varney.