Board of Directors
(for contact information, please go to the Contact page).
Vishu Magee, 59, is President and Founder of MEN. He is a 35-year resident of Taos, a father of three sons and grandfather to three boys. He is a home designer, a published author of one book and many columns for Su Casa Magazine, the Taos Green Guide and The Taos News. He is a graduate of Groton and Stanford University and attributes his early attraction to nonviolence to marching with Martin Luther King and studying in a Gandhi ashram in the Himalayas. He received the Taos News’ 2006 Unsung Hero Award for his work with MEN. His “Nonviolence” column appears bi-weekly in The Taos News.
Miguel Quintana, 36, Vice-president, is a lifelong Taoseño and father of one boy and one girl. An avid baseball and soccer coach, he joined MEN as a mentor and quickly displayed an unusual passion for the work as well as an uncanny insight into how nonviolence can best take root in the local Hispanic culture. He has operated a landscape business for the past eleven years.
Bill Kipnis, 50, is the Treasurer, but also began as a mentor in 2006. An entrepreneur with an MBA in Strategic Planning from the University of Chicago, he is uniquely suited to his role on the Board. He is a 10-year resident of Taos, where he lives with his 8 year-old daughter Ryan.
Crispin Clarke, 33, is Secretary and, with Vishu Magee, has been instrumental in growing MEN in hios role as Executive Director. He came to Taos nine years ago to continue peace work, which had already taken him to El Salvador on an extended service mission. Son of a diplomat, he grew up in England, Germany, and Zimbabwe before attending St. Alban’s school and Swarthmore College. He brings incredible passion for nonviolence as well as ten years’ experience in the non-profit sector.
Peter Martinez, 48, comes from a large and dynamic Taos family which includes a judge, a sheriff, and a pastor. Three years ago he, too, became a pastor, serving primarily in the outlying community of Cerro. The very epitome of a community man, Peter was one of our first mentors. He has a B.A. in physical education and served as a high school basketball coach for eighteen years. He has been a small business owner for twelve years, the majority of them operating Viva Sports.
J.D. Campbell, 66, came to Taos in 2003, intending to retire from a distinguished career in engineering. He quickly became involved in various task forces in Taos and Los Alamos, and spontaneously took an interest in supporting High School athletes in maintaining academic eligibility, becoming an ad hoc mentor to several. It was only natural that he became a MEN mentor. J.D. currently volunteers on the School district’s Citizens’ Oversight Committee and Facilities Committee, and also is part of the Taos Sports Authority, bring the Town and the Schools together to establish Taos as a venue for athletic tournaments and high-altitude sports training.
Gus Gonzalez LISW, Clinical Director
Gus became one of MEN’s first mentors, eventually joining the Board of Directors in 2008. He is a lifelong Taoseño whose service has included being a foster parent, a major domo of his acequia, and twelve years as a board member of ChildRite (an adoption agency). He currently works as a behavioral health clinician with the Children, Youth and Families Division (CYFD) of New Mexico, where he frequently collaborates with MEN with boys in juvenile probation. We are fortunate that he has come onboard as Clinical Director as well, supervising our staff weekly.
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