All of our work is volunteer based - from project developers, interns, and facilitators around the world.

Barton Brooks  Founder and President

Barton founded GLOBAL COLORS after spending the greater part of a decade living and traveling around the world - wanting to build an organization that focused on creating grassroots aid based on the skills of those who need the help. He has led projects on five (soon to be seven) continents, created the GC Sponsorship Program, and founded the My World Wish Campaign - all of which have developed his "Guerrilla Aid" style of volunteerism.Global Colors is the representation of his dream - creating a way to empower individuals and organizations to become personally responsible and emotionally invested in our global family. He believes strongly in the approach of "just go in and get something done" to solve problems around the world, as too much aid gets lost in bureaucracy and behind red tape.

Barton has studied everything from history to theology in universities on a global stage - while his U.S. professional background is based in real estate, the fashion industry, and television production. 

Summer Buckley  Executive Assistant/Project Manager

Summer Buckley currently resides in Washington, DC and is the Executive Assistant and a Project Manager for Global Colors. Prior to joining the Global Colors team, she was the assistant to the Co-Founder at the Enough Project, a project through the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity.

Summer was previously a coordinator and grant writer for the Southern Sudanese Community Center, an organization located in San Diego whose mission is to assist recently placed Sudanese refugees. Summer received her B.A. from the University of San Diego, where she studied sociology and gender with a focus on women in conflict regions.

Brent LeRash  Project Leader

Brent LeRash came to Global Colors to fill a certain niche with skills that none of us have.  His expertise in wildlife conservation will help GC create programs that are environmentally friendly, and focus on issues that affect the relationship between villagers and their local wildlife.

With his Wildlife Conservation degree from UMASS and a production background, Brent will be taking the lead with many of our Guerrilla Aid efforts in 2010.

Eugenie Pabst  Coordinator

EugéniePabst, M.A., Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist in Chicago, working in chronic pain management and behavioral modification, using biofeedback techniques.With focus in the area of perceived disability in the chronic pain population, she works with a wide variety of misunderstood people - varying from a large urban population, a distinctly ethnic populace, and the suburban setting in which she currently practices.

Her background lends itself perfectly to evaluating needs and coordinating projects, assisting Global Colors in achieving many of its goals regarding human rights and the ever-challenging social issues confronting many underdeveloped countries.

Ken Gugliotti  My World Wish Program Coordinator

Ken Gugliotti, MSW, LMT currently resides in Philadelphia, and for the past 10 years has maintained a private massage therapy practice.Prior to that he held a variety of social work positions mostly within the HIV/AIDS related community.

Ken is very moved by the passion and commitment he sees exhibited by Global Colors and is proud to be a part of their team working with the fulfillment of the My World Wish program.

Joy Haynes  Project Leader

Joy was born in Mexico City, Mexico and was raised in Washington, DC. She wears several career hats including being an actress, a producer and a lawyer. She is a cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and currently practices law with her father at The Haynes Immigration Law Firm.

Joy also works as a professional actress in radio, television and film and produces independent content for the festival circuit. She has been on the Board of Directors of Global Colors since its inception in 2005.

Ric Coy  Project Leader

Ric is a Midwest boy at heart. Born and raised in WI. He has his BA in Speech Communication/Theater Education from Simpson College, and his MA in counseling from CSU. Since moving to CA, he has worked as a actor in film, television and on stage.

Currently Ric is combining his passion for sports with his education background -working as an academic counselor to student athletes at UCLA. GO BRUINS!  Ric was instrumental in securing a sponsorship from UCLA to aid GC in Cambodia, and currently oversees the UCLA/Global Colors research internship program.

John Hunter  Webmaster, Online Development

John's career has ranged from the commercial to the creative. His freelance illustration work has been graced by the pages of such noted comic book publishers as Archie, Marvel and DC Comics. At the same time John was involved in licensing, publishing, packaging, and the production of several magazines (Omni Comics, Spy and Psychology Today) for major independent publishers, as well as commercial advertising clients such as Jordache, where his advertising work appeared in such magazines as Glamour, Teen, Young Miss and Seventeen. Later, John went to work on half a dozen independent short and feature film/video productions.
 

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