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| NAN MARIE GREER, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
(Last updated, July, 2009)
Professional Preparation
2005 Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle (Anthropology)
2000 M.A. University of Washington, Seattle (Anthropology)
1994 B.A. Seattle University (Sociology)
1994 B.A. Seattle University (Spanish)
Employment Record
2009-present Civil Conflict Management and Promotion of Peace, Legal Advisor Contract worker-Ibis Dinamarca Danish Indigenous Human Rights NGO - receiving funds from the Danish government Legal Advisor MATUNGBAK R.A.A.N. (North Atlantic Autonomous Region, Nicaragua) 2008-present Legal Advisor, MATUNGBAK Working with the Mayangna territorial government of Mayangna Sauni Arungkah (MATUNGBAK) in assisting various human rights claims, focusing primarily on title to ancestral lands, located between the Municipalities of Siuna, Bonanza, and Rosita
2007-present University of Hawai'i - Kaua‘i Community College
Social and Natural Science courses in Sociology, Anthropology, and Ecology
2006-present Managing Director, Sisin Bank
A boutique investment and merchant banking operation with an approach to
developing charitable funds to support work with indigenous organizations throughout the world, with a current focus on Latin America. Working with private equity, leverage buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions, and maintaining the following areas of expertise: general U.S.-based Hispanic business, Latin American-based businesses (special focus Mexico), computer technology, food and beverage manufacturing, distribution & retail, general manufacturing, general retail, investment management, financial, including banks, and insurance companies.
Website: www.sisinbank.com
2006-present Vice-President of the Board of Directors, Alistar InternationalAn international non-profit organization working with rural indigenous
communities in Central America and the Caribbean, working toward community economic self-sufficiency, autonomy, community-based management and conservation of natural resources, co-management arrangements with the national governments in regards to their parklands/ancestral lands, and land tenure rights (title).
This is an international non-profit 501 (c) 3, non-governmental organization.
Website: www.alistarinternational.com1993-present Cofounder and Executive Director, Alistar International
1994-present President of the Board, Alistar Nicaragua
1994-1997 Cofounder and Executive Director, Alistar Nicaragua
Nicaraguan grassroots community organization – the operations arm of the above mentioned, Alistar International, in Nicaragua, currently run and managed by indigenous and Nicaraguan personnel.
This is a non-profit Nicaraguan non-governmental organization.
Website: www.alistarnicaragua.org
1996 Student International Travel Outreach - Seattle University Coordinating student international travel to Nicaragua - arranging for volunteer activities and housing of matriculated Seattle University students; Coordination with the Jesuit University of Central America (UCA) of Managua, Nicaragua 1994-1996 Director, Girls Home, Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos
(“Our Little Brothers and Sisters”) – Ometepe, Nicaragua
Responsible for the education, mental health and nutrition services, and overall care for 50 resident orphaned and abandoned girls.
Website: www.nph.org
1993-1994 Research Coordinator, Esperanza International Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
Research led to the development of the organization’s current community projects in micro-enterprise lending to women and families, children’s education, family health, and overall community assistance.
Website: www.esperanza.org
Research was based on a $40,000 grant from the parent organization.
1992 Campus Ministry – Retreats, Seattle University
Responsible for coordinating off-campus spiritual retreats for ~200 students Website: www.seattleu.edu/campusministry
1992 Activities Coordinator, Friends of Youth
Responsible for the activities of homeless and abandoned youth in shelters in Seattle area.
Website: www.friendsofyouth.org
Internship through the Department of Sociology, Seattle University
1991 Encargada/Care-taker, Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos
Miacatlan, Mexico
Responsible for the extra-curricular activities of 25 children under the age of 5
1990 Film crew, ESPN filming of the Moscow Marathon, Moscow, Russia
Responsible for helicopter in-flight management of antennae for live-satellite feed.
1989 Research Assistant, Institute for Applied Physiology and Medicine
Assistant to Dr. Richard Ferraro
Responsible for Spectral Analysis of recordings of dolphin communications, development of communication patterns, organizing analysis files
Research Interests
Nicaragua
Agricultural sustainability in the indigenous Atlantic Coastal areas of Nicaragua – with special focus on the establishment of community/territorial seed banks of native land races or heirloom seeds of primary crops such as rice, corn, and beans, etc. for the purpose of the prevention of hunger and long-term food sustainability.
Diagnostic studies for land titling cases involving indigenous communities of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, to assist with legal claims on their traditional lands in coordination with the United Nation’s World Court, the Nicaraguan governments, and the World Bank. These studies involve recording oral history, ethnographic studies, socio-economic analysis, judicial studies, participatory GPS mapping of ancestral lands, natural resource harvest rates, and natural resource management participatory planning.
Hawai‘i
Kaua‘i taro/kalo and endangered waterbird ethnobiology, taro economics, farmer natural resource management, and taro political ecology
Fellowships and Funded Research
2007-2009 Alistar International Auto-Diagnostics, Participatory Land Claim Study in preparation for the Titling of the Ancestral Land Claim of Mayangna Sauni Arungkah - the forth lands of the Mayangna - MATUNGBAK, of the Panamahka clan. This project also included legal assistance and counseling in the court case of the community of Mukuswas against colonists who had squatted on native lands for 9 years - the case was won by the indigenous people of Mukuswas, MATUNGBAK. ($25,000 to date)
2002-2004 National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Research Improvement Grant “Taro Farming, Cultural Survival, and Wetlands Conservation” ($18,000)
2003 World Bank/PRODEP-Nicaragua – funding to conduct participatory research with the Mayangna indigenous community of Awas Tingni (population ~1,000), to document their legal land claim (943.95 km2). ($65,000)
1997-2001 Alistar International, Seattle, Washington – Master’s Research Grant
“Mískitu and Mayangna Indigenous Natural Resource Management and Conservation in the BOSAWAS International Biosphere Reserve, Nicaragua.” ($30,000)
1993 Esperanza International (Bellevue, Washington) Research Grant
“The Situation of Poverty among Children in the Dominican Republic, Poverty Alleviation and Methods of Community Development” ($40,000) Awards 1996 Seattle University: Her-Story Award
1994 Seattle University: Outstanding Senior Award
1994 Seattle University: Segundo Montes Service Award (Sociology Department, Seattle University)
Special Technology Skills
Database/Statistical: SPSS
C.A.D.: Geographical Information Systems (G.I.S.) – ESRI ArcInfo, ArcView
Language
Fluency: English and Spanish
Some knowledge of: French and German
Minimal conversation knowledge of: Miskitú; Mayangna (Sumu); Norwegian; and Hawaiian
Anthropological research and academic interests
Environmental anthropology
Cultural survival; Indigenous human rights and land ownership
Indigenous and community-based natural resource management
Political ecology of common property regimes
Indigenous environmental knowledge and ethnobiology
Economic modeling and decision theory in regards to natural resource harvest rates
Agro-ecology and human ecology of tropical regions
Miskitú and Mayangna (Nicaraguan indigenous groups); Hawaiian Islanders
Business academic interests
Finance
Financial Engineering and Economic Finance Modeling
Investment, Merchant, and International/Global Banking
Restructure Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Divestitures, Workouts, Rollups
Publications
Greer, Nan (in work) “Lo‘i Kalo/Wetland Taro Ethnoecology: Agroecological Perspectives and Endangered Waterbirds in Hawai‘i”
Greer, Nan (2008) "Summer Fieldnotes, 2008" Alistar International, Hawai'i
Greer, Nan (2005) “Ethnoecology of Taro Farmers and their Management of Hawaiian Wetlands and Endangered Waterbirds in Taro Agroecosystems” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington: Seattle, Washington. Greer (2004) "Fieldnotes from Awas Tingni Land Titling Diagnostics 2003, 2004" Greer, Nan, Anthony Stocks , and Anuar Murrar (2003) “Informe Sobre el Reclamo de Tierra de la Comunidad de Awas Tingni.” (Report of the Land Title Claims of the Community of Awas Tingni, Nicaragua) Project completed for PRODEP, a Nicaraguan government inter-institutional organization under funding by the World Bank. Project completed by Alistar Nicaragua, CIDCA, and Idaho State University, 2003.
Greer, Nan (2003) “The Sustainability of Kalo Farming as a Wetlands Management Technique in Hawai‘i” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnobiology, Seattle, Washington.
Greer, Nan “Kalo Farming: Lessons in Cultural Survival, Wetlands Management, and Traditional Environmental Knowledge” presented at the Hawaiian Wetlands Workshop, November 1, 2002, Kāne‘ohe, O‘ahu.
Greer, Nan (1999) “The Indigenous Responses to Hurricane Mitch, in Light of their Historical Struggle for Self-Determination and Land Tenure in the BOSAWAS International Biosphere Reserve, Nicaragua” Alistar International, Seattle, Washington (Master’s Thesis, University of Washington)
Greer, Nan (1994-1996) The Ometepe World, Editor. Alistar International, Seattle, Washington
Greer, Nan (1993) “Children in Poverty in the Dominican Republic.” Esperanza International, Bellevue, Washington
Professional Associations
American Anthropological Association
American Bar Association American Ornithological Association Society for Applied Anthropology
Latin American Anthropology Association
Ecological Anthropology Association
American Birding Association Community Activities
Soccer Activities 2007-present Kaua'i High Girl's Soccer Goalkeeper Coach
2005-present Olympic Development Program – State of Hawai‘i
U.S. Youth Soccer Association
State Coaching Staff and Kaua‘i Island Coordinator
2005-present Kaua‘i Soccer Association
Board member
2006 Olympic Development Program – State of Hawai‘i
U.S. Youth Soccer Association
Coach for Girls under-12 State Team (Girls born 1994)
2005 U14 Boys Hawai‘i Youth Soccer Assn – True North Soccer
Coach for True North Soccer
2004 U14 Boys American Youth Soccer Organization - True North Soccer
Coach for True North Soccer
Record – Undefeated, AYSO
-Winners of Kaua‘i U14 Boys League AYSO
-Champions of Kaua‘i Will Veck Tournament
2003 Kaua‘i Men’s League
Goalkeeper with Hanalei
1994-1997 Nicaraguan Men’s League
Goalkeeper with San Marcos, Ometepe, Nicaragua
1991-1993 Team Diadora
Semi-Professional Team sponsored by Diadora and Mambasok
Travel to Nevada, California, Oregon, New Mexico, among others
1993 Seattle University
Assistant Coach
1989-1992 Seattle University
Starting goalkeeper for four years,
1989 - U19 Olympic Development Team Northwest Region
1987-1989 F.C. Rain
Training with Semi-Professional women’s team sponsored by the professional soccer club, F.C. Storm, ages 16-18
1987-1989 F. C. Seattle Storm
Training with the professional men’s soccer club, and visiting teams, including Dnepper, from Moscow Russia, among others, ages 16-18
1987-1989 U19 Olympic Development Team Washington State
Played for this team from age 16 through age 18
1986-1989 U19 F. C. Royals
Select Team from Fife, Washington
Winners of State and Regionals, several consecutive years in a row
Played for this team from age 15 through 18
1984-1986 U16 Olympic Development Program Washington State
Played for this team from age 13 through 15
1985-1987 Team Löwenbräu
Semi-Professional women’s soccer team sponsored by Löwenbräu
Trained with this team for two consecutive seasons, ages 14 – 16
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