Martha Patricia Vargas Espinosa

Mónica Gendreau Community Fund

Since 2005, Martha Patricia Vargas Espinosa, anthropologist, has served as director of the Mónica Gendreau Community Fund, a local Puebla community-based organization. Currently, she coordinates four projects in alliances with the organizations Terres Des Hommes-Alemania, Inter-American Foundation, Fomento Social Citibanamex, and AMPATH/MAPAS México. Her expertise and ability to advise and assist in the formation of various rural legal groups and organizations as been essential to connecting with and being of service alongside rural communities. Martha Patricia Vargas Espinosa also was a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla and a researcher on issues of migration, identity, childhood, and youth between Mexico and the United States.