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. Spencer Bailey (Canada) Spencer spent 8 months as an intern in PRIV in 2009, and then returned in 2010. He is especially interested in issues of food security and how government policy can be used to assert the food sovereignty of a nation and help keep the population healthy. Spencer has a Bachelor of Science degree in Global Resource Systems from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
	6. Paola Quintero Vivas A lawyer, she graduated from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 2011. She specializes in a progressive branch of law, Social Law (which includes labor law, agricultural law and children). In 2010 she worked in the Endogenous Development Fund, an institution of the Venezuelan government that supervises production projects developed by cooperatives, communal councils, social production enterprises and communities. In her experience, endogenous development (which means development from within) and the Proutist movement both focus on economic and social model necessary for the evolution of the Venezuelan nation as it seeks to satisfy basic needs, participatory community and environmental conservation. She has a lot of enthusiasm in contributing to the Bolivarian Revolution, and thinks that it should draw on the ideas of the Progressive Socialism of PROUT. She is currently involved in projects linking the institute with Venezuelan universities, organizations and the media, and and to maintain the legal status of PRIV.
	7. 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.
	8. 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.