From the September issue of Forum
The AmSoc Board of Governors recently filled four openings with new members.
Kevin Ivers first lived in Sao Paulo as a Rotary exchange student in 1984, spent the next 21 years in Washington, D.C., working in public policy, grassroots organizing, election campaigns, event planning, fundraising lobbying and media relations, before returning to Brazil in 2007. He is the owner of Center Strategies LLC, an international public affairs consulting firm. He graduated with a degree in literature from The American University in 1990.
Ruth Hollard graduated from Louisiana State University in 1989 with a degree in economics, and has lived and worked in Zurich, Paris and Sao Paulo. Hollard most recently worked with local non-profit Instituto Crianca e Vida, a social project that promotes health education in Sao Paulo favelas.
Benton Kirk graduated from Texas A&M University in 1997 with a degree in agricultural economics. He has worked with Archer Daniels Midland since 1998, beginning in La Salle, Ill., and moving up through the company with stops in Paraguay, Bolivia and now Brazil.
Tia Hoppin Smith brings to the Board more than 15 years of marketing management and global advertising experience. She graduated from the University of Colorado in 1993 with a degree in journalism and mass communication, and in 1999 earned her MBA in international management from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix. Smith has worked with such multinational companies as Hewlett Packard and Compaq Computers.
To learn more about becoming a board member, e-mail amsoc@amsoc.com.br.
