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About CHIP - Our Staff Who Make The Project Possible
Browse the profiles of our staff. Learn about where we come from, and why we're dedicated to continually gathering the best, most accurate information about Chile!
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Steve
Anderson - Owner, Publisher: CHIP, The Santiago Times
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 is trying to make his hobby into a business - starting
a university-level journalism project for international students and
perfecting The Santiago Times. When he can, he spends time at his farm
outside of Puerto Montt - planting blueberries - or his
Five-Acres-And-Independence parcela in Caleu, an hour from Santiago. And, of
course, he is with his son Ray, age 9, as much as possible.
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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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Kim van Gent - Business Intern
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 Haily - The Santiago Times
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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Kathrine Schmidt - The Santiago Times
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 Allsop - The Santiago Times
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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Rob Foulkes - The Santiago Times
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 Praamsma - The Santiago Times
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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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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Miguel Fredes - Legal Representative
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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Mauricio Eyzaguirre - The Santiago Times
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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Ray Anderson - The Santiago Times
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 - Browse
the Profiles of Past CHIP Interns and Staff.
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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