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.

Allie is the former Technology Director at Caminos de Agua, a position in which she served for over 5 years. After relocating to Ohio in 2024, Allie was quickly asked to rejoin the Caminos team as the newest, and youngest, member of our Board of Directors. Allie is a talented water engineer who helped build and expand many of Caminos’ programs, overseeing technology development, R&D, and water quality monitoring from 2019-2024. Allie graduated from Gonzaga University with a degree in Civil Engineering and Leadership Studies. Her background includes water and wastewater projects in the Pacific Northwest of the US, water filtration and sourcing in Zambia, and work with women coffee farmers in Ecuador.

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).

Dave Barrett is a retired nonprofit fundraising and management professional living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Formerly based in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts and the San Francisco Bay Area, he raised tens of millions of dollars in operating, capital and endowment funds over a 30 plus-year career as a consultant and Director of Development for a wide range of cultural, educational, and health-related nonprofits. He has served on the Boards of several community organizations in both parts of the country, and in 2015, was named one of the top 25 most “dedicated, creative and influential Berkshire County residents” by Berkshire Magazine. Barrett also had a concurrent career as a professional musician, and is now devoting the bulk of his time to creating visual art.

Doug is a senior advisor to non-profit organizations, Fortune 1000 companies and start-ups. He founded Industry Reimagined 2030, a non-profit with the mission to support the revitalization of U.S. manufacturing. He has collaborated with executives in consumer products, technology, chemicals, healthcare and natural resources. He is a member of the Ashoka Support Network. Doug has an MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University and a BA from the University of Rochester.

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. 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.

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.