team
We are a family-run foundation, our work stems from the love we have for exploring. A love that is generational, deeply rooted in our beings. Probably it is that love of the wild that has made growing roots in Costa Rica so easy. For over 30 years we have been living in and fighting for the conservation of the mountains in Escazu.
Now, this fight has also grown roots through the creation of EcoFuturo Foundation. Our plan is to become a beacon for regenerative lifestyles so that all (from near and far) can come and experience the ease of regenerative practices with the hope that they will then be able to adopt some of those practices when they go home.
Small acts of love for a sustainable planet
Indira de Beausset
Founder
Indira has Masters degrees in Public Health and Group Psychology, doctorate in nonformal education and critical thinking. Her desire to work with the balance in the natural world and change human interaction among themselves and with the rest of the world comes not from formal education but from a life mostly lived in the wild relying on the natural resources of the environment with very little help from technology. Agriculture was always a part of her family life and although not permitted to study in that field because of being a woman in the 1960’s, she has gradually over the years become an autodidactic and a passionate believer that creating a regenerative culture, encompassing the environmental, social, economic, political and spiritual aspects of life, is the way to insure the possibility of survival of human life on the planet. The EcoFuturo Foundation is a way to put into practice these beliefs at the local level.
Malena Donas
President
Marketing and market research professional with over 17 years of experience. Passionate about creating a corporate revolution to help build a sustainable future by advocating for change withing brands to foster change in how and what is consumed. Personally, she is an herbalist and a forager, focused on medicine through food and re-igniting love of culinary and agricultural diversity to catalyze a healthier food chain and ensure peoples food sovereignty.
B. K. (Braj) Singh
Board of Directors
Cofounder of Green Roots Consultants dedicated to providing local solutions for global challenges in agricultural production, management of natural resources and improving human capacity. Ex professor of Science of soil and vegetable nutrition in EARTH university in Costa Rica. Obtained his M.S.c in PFU Moscow, in geochemistry and a PHD from the university of Florida in the science of soil.
Marcela Dumani Echandi
Board of Directors
Professor in the school of nutrition in the University of Costa Rica, where she researches food and nutritional safety, nutritional information and public nutrition. A nutritionist with a doctorate in pedagogy and sustainable development form La Salle University. Part of the founding group of the Costa Rican Agroecological network.
Raul Botero Botero
Consultant
Graduated from Veterinary Medicine from the university of Caldas, Colombia. Has worked at the International Center of Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), founder of the Center for research in sustainable systems for agricultural production, and as professor and researcher at EARTH University for over 20 years in the department of tropical agriculture. With 50 years of practical work within the field of sustainable tropical cattle raising.
Javier Sanchez
Cosultant
Graduated from the University of Costa Rica in natural resource management, Javier works as an agricultural and sustainable development consultant as well as focusing on gender equality in the area of agriculture. More than 30 years of work in Central America for governmental agencies, international colaboration agencies, NGOs and cooperatives implementing trainings, policies and various projects.