Staff

	1. Dada Maheshvarananda – Director Born in the US, Dada is an activist, writer, and monk. For 33 years he has taught meditation and yoga and supervised social service projects, in Southeast Asia, Europe and South America. His book, After Capitalism: Prout’s Vision for a New World, has been published in 10 languages. He has given hundreds of seminars and workshops around the world about social issues and spiritual values. He founded the Prout Research Institute in 2007. His blog is: www.aftercapitalism.org.
	2. José G. Albarrán Graduate in firefighting and a graphic designer; activist and coordinator in the International Humanist Movement, has been Coordinator of Projects and Public Relations of the Community for Human Development. He is active member of Proutist Universal since 2001 and has served as President of the Board of Directors of the Prout Research Institute from 2007 until 2011. In 2007 he received a full scholarship for one month of training by the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation in Spain.
	3. Mario Mota Electronics engineer, graduate of the Simón Bolívar University, social activist, active member of Proutist Universal and AMURT in Guatire, State of Miranda since 2001. Served with AMURT disaster relief team in Haiti after the earthquake in 2009.
	4. Dada Atmapranananda Originally from the Philippines, graduated from the Don Mariano Memorial State University in Military Science. He had six years trained intensive military training in Search and Rescue (specializing in mountain and jungle). In 1986 he trained as a yogi monk, and organized social service projects and adventure sports camps for youth in Sri Lanka, Argentina, Peru and Brazil. Since 1999 he worked intensively in Venezuela at the Centro Madre Community Center in San Jose de Barlovento, studying cooperatives and organizing agricultural, educational and cultural programs.
	5. Eugenio M. Has an undergraduate degree in economics and diplomatic relations, with expertise in adult education and social promotion TOEFL and interpreter. Since 1989 he has participated in the planning and execution of self-management in marginalized and indigenous communities. For 10 years he was a successful business owner. This experience caused him great dissatisfaction because of the exploitation, greed and immorality of the capitalist system. He became a volunteer in the Institute to study and support the development of a new economic model that is Neo-humanist in the context of a new global society.
	6. Cris Gonzalez Venezuelan fashion designer, graduated from Colegio Universitario Monseñor de Talavera. She has been a member of Prout from the First Global Conference in Venezuela in 2011 as administrative assistant and full-time volunteer. She is currently working on a production project with a sewing cooperative in Centro Madre clothing designs and the development of the Prout house in El Marquez, Caracas.
	7. Ghecimar Golindano (Puerta la Cruz, Venezuela) Artist, she has been a member of Prout since the First Global Prout Convention in Venezuela in July 2011.
	8. Ernesto “Akhilesh” Peña (Cuba) A Master of Arts from the Higher Institute of Arts of Cuba. Also a graduate of English and French, has taken courses on Family Health and Applied Anthropology to Health by the National School of Medicine in Havana. He combines the professional practice of fine arts with participation in cultural, economic and agricultural social projects, for which he draws on the Prout philosophy. The purpose of his project “Art without limits,” is that art serves as a path to personal improvement and transformation of the world.