ECHO was founded by four former CENIT volunteers: Sarah Guerette, Sara Ciner Schodt, Geneva Hall-Shelton, and Eric Ruben.
Brendan Bradford
Brendan is from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA area and graduated from the University of Scranton in 2010. He spent most of the next four years loving life in Ecuador, volunteering with Rostro de Cristo in Guayaquil and CENIT in Quito, where he worked as Volunteer Coordinator and General Coordinator until the summer of 2014. He now works as a Physician Assistant.
Emily Abrash de Garcia
Megan Hall
Megan grew up on a small farm in rural Wisconsin and studied nutrition, psychology, and gender and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin. After researching diet and diabetes in the community surrounding Hospital Pedro Vicente Maldonado, Ecuador, she volunteered at CENIT for 11 months, conducting health outreach in the community and sexual health education in the classrooms. Megan earned a Masters in Public Health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, where she also completed the Dietetic Internship. Currently, Megan works as a clinical dietitian in New Orleans, where she lives with her husband and many plants.