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Who We Are

Generations Humanitarian (Genhu) is an Utah based 501(c)(3) Public Charity (EIN26-3833358). In good measure, Generations Humanitarian (Genhu) is run by volunteers. The Board of Directors will grow as we find qualified directors to help move the mission along. We are pleased to have a qualified, world class Advisory Board, to whom we turn for counsel and innovation.

To contact us, visit the Secretariat page.


Board of Directors

Lisa Chapman, President

Born & raised in Utah and California. Graduated from BYU 1998 with BA in Marketing. She currently is Marketing Director for Coca-Cola Western Division. She is fluent in Portuguese.

Van Evans, MS, MSW, Director and Founder

Van won a Master of Social Work degree with an international certificate from the University of Utah and a Master of Science degree in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania. He has participated in the Wharton Societal Wealth Program and the Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative.

He works part time as a psychotherapist, specializing in anxiety disorders and attachment issues with both adults and children, and is a student of early child development and attachment. His interests and research include best-practice interventions for street children and child trafficking for slavery, sexual exploitation, and organs. He has worked in the independent sector for 13 years in sustainable village development and micro enterprise in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Honduras. In the past five years, he founded two non-profit organizations that build self-sustaining orphanages and drop-in centers for street children in Latin America. He is fluent in Spanish, and is conversant in Quechua and Portuguese.

Scott Evans, CPA, Treasurer

Scott graduated from the University of Utah with a BA in Accounting and a minor in Spanish. He works as controller for the Salt Lake Division of US Foodservice, accounting for $225 million in annual sales. He has taken two humanitarian expeditions to Peru. He served an LDS mission to Mexico and is fluent in Spanish. We are grateful he is donating his time to serve as our corporate treasurer and advisor to Affiliate accounting staff in Latin America.

G. Leonidas Gavancho, Director

Leonidas was born and reared in Cusco, Peru. He has a Master's degree in Bilingual Education and has a career as both a school teacher and police officer in the secret police force. He fought in the terrorist war against the Shining Path insurgents and was wounded in battle. He and his wife, Eunice, are the parents of 4 children, two of which study in the USA. He speaks fluent Spanish and Quechua.



Advisory Board (Alphabetically by last name)

Richard J. Estes, DSW

Richard J. Estes is Professor of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. At Penn, Dr. Estes is Chair of the graduate concentration in Social and Economic Development (SED where he also directs the School's international programs. He is the author of 12 books and dozens of articles and is arguably the world authority on sexual exploitation of children, including street children.
Dr. Estes' international activities have been extensive. Among other assignments, he has held visiting Professorships in Iran, Norway, the People's Republic of China, Morocco, Korea, Hawaii, Japan, Mongolia, the Russian Federation, Belgium, Sweden, Mexico, Hong Kong and elsewhere. In the United States, Dr. Estes is a current member of the Global Commission of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). In 2004 he was elected President of the International Society For Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS).

He also is a specialist on issues related to social and economic development, poverty, and the commercial sexual exploitation of children. His current projects are:

1. The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the U. S., Canada and Mexico

2. At the Crossroads: Current Trends and Dilemmas in International Development

3. The "Poverties": Competing Definitions and Alternative Approaches to Measurement

4. Poor Children in Rich Countries: Toward a Resolution of the Paradox

5. Benevolence and the Stranger: Continuities and Discontinuities in Western and Eastern Approaches to Philanthropy

6. Reducing Diversity-Related Social Conflict

We feel it a great privilege that Richard has enthusiastically agreed to serve on our Advisory Board.

Richard Paul Evans

When Richard wrote the #1 best-seller, The Christmas Box, he never intended on becoming an internationally known author.
His quiet story of parental love and the true meaning of Christmas made history when it became simultaneously the #1 hardcover and paperback book in the nation. Since then, more than eight million copies of The Christmas Box have been printed. The Emmy award-winning CBS television movie based on The Christmas Box starred Maureen O'Hara and Richard Thomas. Two more of Evans's books were produced by Hallmark and starred such well-known actors as James Earl Jones, Vanessa Redgrave, Naomi Watts, Mary McDonough and Academy award winner Ellen Burstyn. He has since written 12 consecutive New York Times bestsellers and is one of the few authors in history to have hit both the fiction and non-fiction bestseller lists. He has won three awards for his children's books including the 1998 American Mothers book award and two first place Storytelling World awards. Evans's book, The Sunflower, takes place in Peru at one of our homes for children.

During the spring of 1997, Evans founded The Christmas Box House International, an organization devoted to building shelters and providing services for abused and neglected children. Such shelters are operational in Moab, Vernal, Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah and Lucre, Peru. To date, more than 16,000 children have been housed in Christmas Box House facilities.

As an acclaimed speaker, Evans has shared the podium with such notable personalities as President George W. Bush, President George and Barbara Bush, former British Prime Minister John Majors, Ron Howard, Elizabeth Dole, Deepak Chopra, Steve Allen, and Bob Hope. Evans has been featured on the Today show and Entertainment Tonight, as well as in Time, Newsweek, People, The New York Times, Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, USA Today, TV Guide, Reader's Digest, and Family Circle. Evans lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife, Keri, and their five children.

Jaime Figueroa, MPA

Jaime has worked in international development for 20 years in Mexico City, Bolivia, and Peru. A Peruvian by birth, Jaime has founded or co-founded humanitarian organizations to improved the lives of Andean poor. He has extensive experience in project rural development in the areas of literacy, heath, agriculture, animal husbandry, water projects, latrines, and greenhouses. He is currently the Executive Director of Eagle-Condor Humanitarian, a Salt Lake City based nonprofit that specializes in micro credit training, consulting and loans. He holds a Master of Public Administration degree from BYU. He is fluent in Spanish and English.

Linsey Gleed

Linsey won a degree in Family, Consumer, and Human Development with a minor in Sociology and emphasis in nonprofit services. She is currently working on a Medical Assisting degree. She has been on 2 humanitarian expeditions to Peru and work as an intern at an orphanage for several months in Peru as well. She commands basic Spanish. We are delighted to have Linsey manage the intern program for Genhu as well as maintain her duties in resource development.

Brad W. Lundahl, PhD, MSW

Assistant Professor, College of Social Work, University of Utah. Specializing in Meta-analysis, Family Therapy and Child Development, Dr. Lundahl has had more than 10 years experience in clinical and psychological research. He has more than three dozen peer reviewed articles, including: The need to give and the need to receive: Volunteerism in homeless shelter and a chapter called "Faith based antipoverty programs". Encyclopedia of Poverty. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications). He received the Faculty Excellence in Research - Mary Shields McPhee Memorial Award, College of Social Work, University of Utah, 2007 - 2008. He holds an MSW and Phd in Clinical Psychology.

Dr. Lundahl and Van Evans will be co-developing our research instrument for best practice among model drop-in centers and orphanages in Latin America. He served an LDS mission in Mexico and is fluent in Spanish.

Thomas M. McKenna, MSW

Thomas M. McKenna is the Director of The Fels Certificate Program in Nonprofit Administration, Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania; former National Chief Executive Officer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. He received his MSW from Columbia University. Under Tom's leadership, working with the White House, Oprah Winfrey, and others, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America expanded to become one of the largest youth advocacy programs in the United States and other countries. Tom has extensive experience in advocacy and cause related marketing. We are grateful for Tom's wisdom and counsel on advocacy, lobbying, and core competencies of non-profit leadership.

Chieko N. Okazaki

She was born and raised in Hawaii as a Buddhist, the daughter of Hawaii-born Japanese. She married Ed Okazaki and they have two sons. By profession she is an educator, teaching in Hawaii, Utah, and Colorado, and also serving as an elementary school principal. In 1961 she was appointed to the YWMIA board in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1990 she was called to be the first counselor in the Relief Society general presidency. She is the author of several books and an advocate of social work principals.
Chieko's lifetime of experience will aid us in innovative approaches to educating the street children under our charge.



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