Volunteer

 Volunteering with Brillantes Caminantes provides the chance to collaborate with others from the Guanajuato community, as well as the opportunity to meet our outstanding students and help them to succeed.

Community members are always welcome
to find out more about us by attending
a quarterly member meeting.

MEET SOME OF OUR VOLUNTEERS

David Hester

As a U.S. naval officer, David served in several countries around the world. Subsequently, he worked as a legislative analyst with the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC. He also taught English in Japan for several years, as well as in a high school in Romania during a stint in the Peace Corps.  After visiting Guanajuato many times starting in 2011, he and his wife Rosemarie Conde (also a Brillantes volunteer) relocated permanently in December 2020. In the course of visiting and then living here, he heard about and was impressed with the mission, vision, and accomplishments of BC. He became a member in June 2021 and serves on the finance committee.

Anna Adams

Anna is a retired professor of Latin American History at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., where she taught classes in colonial and modern Latin American history, Latino history, and women’s history. She came to live in Guanajuato in 2007.  She is one of the founders of Brillantes Caminantes and has served as president and secretary of the association.  She is currently a mentor, chairs the standing committee on student selection, and is a member of the student affairs committee.  She says, “Brillantes has provided me with the opportunity to continue working with university students, to have an entry into my adopted community, and to give something back to that community.”

Carolyn Black

Before moving to Guanajuato in 2018, Carolyn worked as an accountant for construction companies in Hawaii and California. She learned about BC from her friend (and former BC board member) David Spencer and offered to share her accounting skills with the association in 2019. Shortly thereafter, she transitioned BC’s accounting to QuickBooks Pro, which made it possible to integrate and consolidate the association’s financial data from both Mexican and U.S. accounts. After producing the quarterly and annual reports for 18 months, she became a member in 2021.  She serves on the finance committee.

Vivian Little

Vivian and her husband Jeff Bower visited Guanajuato for the first time in 2012 and became part-time residents in 2016. Before retirement, Vivian dedicated her life to classical ballet, having danced in Seattle’s Pacific Northwest Ballet and with the San Francisco Ballet. After her professional career ended, she taught in several ballet institutions, before founding and co-directing Dance Fremont in Seattle.  She also taught dance at the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts. She continues to teach ballet and assists Opera Guanajuato with choreography and staging. Since becoming a member of BC, she has helped with student admissions interviews and has served as a mentor for the last four years.  She is also a member of the communications and outreach committee.