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Publisher and journalist Steve Anderson hails from Fayetteville, Arkansas – where he once served as a VISTA volunteer, taught school, practiced law and involved himself in community affairs as a JP on the local Quorum Court.
While busy making other plans, force majuere (she's gone but not forgotten) took him to Chile in 1987. He launched the Chile Information Project (CHIP) in 1990 as a hobby and a spin-off from a project that began while working at the Catholic Church's Vicaria of Solidarity.
After stringing for various international mining and fruit export publications, he now writes for the Chilean Exporters Association. When he can he spends time at his farm outside of Puerto Montt, but his son Ray, age 7, and his work at CHIP occupy most of his time.
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Alejandra was born in Santiago and studied advertising at the University of Santiago. She has worked for CHIP since 1994 and has two teenaged daughters – Vera and Maga.
Alejandra has made a valiant effort over the years to learn English, but has finally decided that she is linguistically challenged. Still, she more than makes up for her English-language learning handicap with an abundance of good cheer and lots of hard work - handling CHIP finances and keeping the offices in good running order.
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Victor Mauricio Henriquez joined the CHIP staff in January 1999, just after receiving his B.A. in journalism from Andrés Bello University the previous year. He has worked on several areas of the Chip Network and now charged with keeping the Santiago Times web site up-to-date. Victor also manages the paper's e-mail delivery nightly. He works from home, taking advantage of his computing and Internet skills to be "remote" yet on-demand.
Victor Mauricio is the proud father of 7-year-old Fabian. He also owns an Internet Cafe, which kicked off on August 2004. There, he enjoys helping people learn to use the Internet and computers, while making a "lot" of money, hah!
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While often consumed in his role as CEO and President of the Chiron Group, a web services firm in "nearby" Denver... or as GVP of Internet Business at a financial consultancy firm... CHIP's darkest angel has been consulting and generally watching over company Internet happenings since the turn of the millennium. Now formalized as a principal strategist for web-based growth, our resident vampire spends most of his life in front of glowing monitors. He's not really blond - that's just radiation.
In the fleeting periods of time not spent baby-sitting the "net" in general and optimizing the CHIP web presence in particular, he takes every opportunity to whisk his sons Ares and Thor skywards to the dismay of his proudly Chilean wife, Pame.
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Attorney Miguel Fredes has focused much of his professional energy working to assure that environmental decision-making, both nationally and internationally, is done in an open and transparent way. He has nine years of professional experience in the field of freedom and access to information, public interest litigation, and environmental law and policy research. And he speaks good English.
When not giving The Santiago Times his legal advice, he works as staff attorney at the Intellectual Property Chilean Law Firm Anselmo Aguayo Abogados and also serves as International Affairs Director of the Patagonian Center of Environmental Law (CEPDA), a public interest environmental law organization based in Valdivia. He is member of E-LAW, a network of lawyers and scientists working to protect the environment world-wide.
He has helped co-found three public interest environmental law firms in Chile: Fiscalia del Medio Ambiente (FIMA) in 1998, Centro Austral de Derecho Ambiental (CEADA) in 2000 and CEPDA in 2005. He served as CEADA President during 2000-2003 and has authored several articles on environmental management, access rights, biodiversity and environmental law. Miguel lives in Santiago and loves to play piano, practice Yoga and do rock
climbing.
Tel: (56) 2.233.0985 – Mobile: 09.067.3512
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Raul has lived in small towns like Lago Verde up in the Andes, in isolated islands like Maillen (two hour by boat from Puerto Montt) and big cities like Santiago or Chicago.
He is a bilingual (English and Spanish) elementary school teacher who enjoys travelling and meeting with people from all over the world. Raul worked in the United States for six years with different immigrants aid organizations and at the same time he was involved in some volunteer programs in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
He and his wife Vicky have been living in Puerto Montt since they got back from the States. They have two kids: Simón and Mariel. |
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Julia Thiel grew up in the little town of St. Louis, Missouri, but swears she has never gone cow-tipping in her life. At the age of 18, she departed for Northfield, Minnesota, known as the city of "Cows, Colleges and Contentment" (also, incidentally, the home of Carleton College, where she went to school). Upon graduating in June 2004, she felt the urge to move to any city without the word "cow" in its motto, and based on this criteria chose Santiago.
Now fulfilling her dream of living in Santiago, she currently teaches English, takes Spanish classes, does pottery, and works at the Santiago Times. Her other interests include travel, photography, horses, reading and writing, and any combination of the above, as well as uncountable others.
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Mauricio is 25 years old and has been studying for two years at the Inceni Institute. Mauricio’s real passion, however, is music: he’s been in a band for the past eight years and has released two records - "Princess Aura" with Alta Densidad and "They Who Believe" with his current band, Afterlife. He is now working on his third album.
Mauricio has had the opportunity to share the stage with foreign bands (mainly European) at Santiago shows. He began his internship at The Santiago Times in November 2004, and has been a full-time employee since March 2005.
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Kim van Gent was born and grew up in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is a student in International Business and Management and is interning at The Santiago Times after studying a year in Indonesia.
She has been tasked with developing and selling a series of English-language tourism maps for CHIP's "Santiago's Neighborhoods" project and is proud to say that the result of her efforts can be seen on the ST website - where you click the Santiago Neighborhoods option.
When not laboring under Steve's always watchful eye, she enjoys picking up on the beast of Latino rhythms and, indeed, is now taking both salsa and tango classes.
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Jackie was raised in Australia and received a Business Administration degree from the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She later decided to follow her mom and dad to back to Chile, the land of wines and mountains.
Once in Chile, she was blessed with her beautiful Italian-Chilean daughter, Catalina, who helped seal the decision to remain in Chile.
Jackie came to CHIP Travel after working several years as an independent business consultant and translator, and is putting her business expertise to good use at her new position. She sends a special hug to her former co-worker, Victor Pino, who has moved on to new horizons... Thanks Victor!
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After four years as a southern sorority girl in Dallas, TX, Jackie Hailey graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BA in Broadcast Journalism and Spanish.
A self proclaimed sucker for anything Latino, Jackie loves bodysurfing, reading, playing soccer, working out, and dancing to disco. A native of San Diego, CA, Jackie's just another 21-year-old looking for what she's supposed to do.
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Katherine is a junior at Tufts University studying International Relations and English. Her interest in Latin American media and political economy brought her to Santiago for the semester, where she will be continuing her I.R. coursework at the University of Chile.
After working for her University Daily, her interest in Journalism brought her to the Santiago Times. She hopes to spend her time in Santiago improving her Spanish, making interesting Chilean friends, and improving her nascent Capoeira skills with classes in Bellavista.
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Laura has just graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge and is currently working as an intern for The Santiago Times. She has previously written for The Liberal magazine, worked as an intern at British Vogue, and spent most of university acting in and directing plays and films, writing for the student newspapers, editing the fashion section of the The Cambridge Student and organising a fashion show. She hopes to be a features writer.
Laura lives in London, with her Italian mother and English father. She is in Chile to improve her Spanish, writing and skiiing. She enjoys reading (her favorite authors are Hunter S. Thompson and Cervantes) and watching bad daytime soaps.
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Since graduating in Political Science from Cambridge University in 2004, Rob has spent time editing and writing for political publications in London, and has traveled and taught English in the Far East. Five months in Seoul, South Korea convinced Rob that English-teaching was not his forté.
After his internship at The Santiago Times, he plans to return to the UK in 2006 for further study and eventual employment by the British Government.
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Magdalena Pablo The Santiago Times - Account Executive
Magdalena Pablo is a recent journalism school graduate who has been spending most of post-university working life with radio and cultural projects: bringing together sponsors and programs.
Between assignments, she is also spending a great deal of time at The Santiago Times, promoting our newspaper to universities and English language institutes throughout the country.
She's got tremendous drive and energy, and has been a real shot in the arm for CHIP's newspaper promotion effort.
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Wanda grew up in the tiny village of Clayton, not far from Canada's capital city, Ottawa. After completing her journalism degree at the University of King's College in Halifax, she decided she needed an adventure, and although she was apprehensive about diving into life in the sprawling, smoggy city of Santiago, she now feels quite at home, wandering the city's streets and discovering new things on every street corner. She particularly enjoys that outside the Santiago Times office, you can buy big bags of tangerines from vendors who sell to people in their stopped cars at street lights. And they only cost 1000 pesos!
Before working at the Times, Wanda wrote for several Canadian newspapers, including the Montreal Gazette and the Halifax Commoner, and small town newspapers like the Humm, the Almonte Gazette and Kingston's The Independent Voice.
Who knows how long Wanda will be at the Santiago Time, but she hopes that along with news writing, she'll be able to dabble in some of her favorite journalistic avenues - narrative writing and arts and cultural writing.
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Brad arrived from New York in November to act as the official photographer of The Santiago Times. With a photojournalism degree from Syracuse University, and some freelance experience, he hopes to improve the image quality of the paper.
While escaping the Bush Regime (albeit briefly) he hopes to improve his Spanish during his time in the Southern Hemisphere. He embraces the sun and fútbol that Chile offers - two very scarce items back home in NY and Boston.
Brad is also spending considerable time at Diario Siete because of the developing relationship between The Santiago Times and Chile's new, progressive daily. So his days are busy and hectic - there is no end to the work.
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Although Federico is an intern, he provides a key function helping to liaison between a ST staff full of foreigners and a complex Chilean society. What is it to be Chilean? Ask Federico!!!!
Federico spent eight years in a German boarding school in the southern city of Temuco before coming to Santiago where he is a journalism student. He enjoys online journalism, politics, and investigative reporting.
During his internship at The Santiago Times he hopes to improve his English and writing skills. His aim is to become truly bilingual. In the company of friends and drinks, Federico enjoys analyzing "the Chilean reality."
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Nate Gill The Santiago Times
Nate was born in the sweet sunny southern state of North Carolina. He is a 2003 NC State graduate in Philosophy and Anthropology and spent two years at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina working on health and education surveys for the U.S. government.
Nate hopes to begin a Master's degree in Latin American social movements in 2006 while continuing to work for the Santiago Times reporting the news.
He is especially interested in human rights and social policy issues.
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Ray, age 8, is the youngest member of the Santiago Times staff. A bilingual wonder, he provides a certain youthful zest to whatever assignment he takes on.
In addition to extolling the virtues of the children's news hour "31 Minutes," (he knows all the songs by heart), he is a sports fanatic - both an aspiring fisherman and an innate soccer player.
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CHIPSY the Cat The CHile Information Project
CHIPSY the cat does very little, as cats are wont to do. It is however, a mascot, pushing our staff to work ever harder - the antithesis of lazy catlike behavior. At least CHIPsy held still for photos.
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CHIP ALUMNI - Blasts from the Past!
CHIP staffers would like to thank all of our interns and employees who have made substantial contributions over the years! Please take the opportunity (click above on CHIP ALUMNI) to view former CHIP interns, helpers and friends. Many of these bright young people are back at large, so look out world, here they come!
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