TGG Board Members
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Miriam Delicado
Founder, Executive Director and Board Member
As a social entrepreneur, Ms. Delicado has dedicated her time, energy,
and resources to encourage positive change and life balance around the
world. Over the past decade her primary advocacy has been to focus on
the preservation of indigenous traditions, natural resources and
ecosystems. She is also a large supporter of alternative energy
research, ancient wisdom, sustainable living, spiritual enlightenment
and concepts of interconnectedness. She is an accomplished free-lance
writer and published author, inspirational speaker, and donates her
expertise to a wide-variety of traditional Indigenous communities and
others sharing the same path around the world.
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Pamela Gibbs
Founding Board Member, President
Ms. Gibbs graduated Magna Cum Laude from Syracuse University, in 1981, with a Dual Major in Fine Arts and Education with continued graduate studies in special education. She has worked for thirty years in public, private and institutional educational settings. Her strengths include working as a teacher, educational administrator and consultant with at-risk youth. Also providing special education & substance abuse educational services, curriculum planning & development, student evaluation & testing as well as Behavioral Health Care treatment to various public and private schools. She holds teaching certifications in Art Education, Special Education and Elementary Education in NY, NJ, FL & NC. As a former owner/innkeeper her experience also includes general business management, marketing/advertising, event planning, staff management, purchasing agent and accounting skills.
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Michael McOmber
Founding Board Member, Secretary
Michael McOmber serves as President of Bridges Academy Corporation, a boarding school for troubled teens, in Bend Oregon since 1997. His association with Nonprofit organizations began in 1971, when he worked at a center for counseling the underprivileged, and also with the Joan Baez Institute for Nonviolence. He is currently on the board of The Veggie Van Organization, a Nonprofit alternative energy, advocacy and educational group, in Santa Monica, California. The Veggie Van organization produced a Sundance award winning documentary film; FUEL.
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Ronald Wadsworth
Founding Board Member
Mr. Wadsworth has dedicated his professional life to community service and preservation of the traditional teachings and ancient wisdom of the Hopi people. Currently, he is a Spokesman for the Hopi Traditional Sovereign Government having worked in this position since the year 1989. He is the liaison for the management of the traditional governing affairs for: land usage requests and/or assignments; natural resources programs; ecological restoration initiatives; social services and family relations, inclusive of conflict mediation/resolution, and tribunal court representation, as needed for the Village of Shungopavi. He is a member of: Hopi Cultural Preservation Task Team; Indigenous Cultural Exchange Program and Touching our World Foundation, Inc. In addition, Ronald continues the tradition passed to him by his renowned silversmith father, Ted Wadsworth of creating Hopi jewelry.
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Neena Dolwani
Founding Board Member
Ms. Dolwani graduated from the University of California in Irvine with degrees in both Political Science and International Studies. She completed a minor in Business Management and became certified through research in Middle East affairs. Upon graduation, she served as the Executive Director of the Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) chapter of Southern California. She currently works in sales with customers in Central and South America using the Spanish language she learned as a child. She is a passionate activist for social and political causes, and volunteers her time to several forums that promote awareness of alternative health topics and the development of human consciousness.
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