OUR STAFF
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meg Peralta-Silva
Program Coordinator
Meg’s journey is all about fostering communities where everyone can flourish. Originally from Baltimore, Meg lives with a spirit of curiosity and a heart full of dreams and has enjoyed immersing herself in other cultures. After getting her BA in Peacebuilding and Community Development, Meg set out to support communities experiencing marginalization. One of her passions is conflict transformation. She has worked in non-profits focused on supporting people experiencing incarceration, as a youth advocate, and in education. For her, literacy is all about empowering individuals to pursue their own dreams. A self-declared nerd, Meg devours books and enjoys novels, memoirs, histories, and theory. Though she once wanted to go to circus school she now lives in the circus with her two wild boys. She daydreams about learning aerial silks, doing a solidarity learning tour in Cuba, and backpacking the Pacific Rim Trail. She’d also like to garden but so far hasn’t kept any plants alive through an Albuquerque summer.
meg Peralta-Silva
Program Coordinator
Meg’s journey is all about fostering communities where everyone can flourish. Originally from Baltimore, Meg lives with a spirit of curiosity and a heart full of dreams and has enjoyed immersing herself in other cultures. After getting her BA in Peacebuilding and Community Development, Meg set out to support communities experiencing marginalization. One of her passions is conflict transformation. She has worked in non-profits focused on supporting people experiencing incarceration, as a youth advocate, and in education. For her, literacy is all about empowering individuals to pursue their own dreams. A self-declared nerd, Meg devours books and enjoys novels, memoirs, histories, and theory. Though she once wanted to go to circus school she now lives in the circus with her two wild boys. She daydreams about learning aerial silks, doing a solidarity learning tour in Cuba, and backpacking the Pacific Rim Trail. She’d also like to garden but so far hasn’t kept any plants alive through an Albuquerque summer.
ESODIE GEIGER
Executive Director
Over ten years and hundreds of students later, Esodie has had the pleasure of shaping this boutique organization into a formidable education center. Her work in the nonprofit sector began in 1989 when she volunteered at a center in Upstate New York that served migrant farmworkers. By 1992, she received her ESL tutor training through Literacy Volunteers of America. After moving to Albuquerque in 2012, she found herself looking for a volunteer opportunity that led her to Ethos. The right to basic literacy for everyone keeps her plugging away daily. When she’s not working you might find her filming a movie (she’s been in 60 film/ TV productions), walking her three dogs, or watching Svengoolie with her fiancé Shawn.
CINDY KETCHUM
Trainer/ Consultant
Cindy Ketchum joined our team in April 2015. She has a Bachelor's degree in Sociology. For her, it’s all about the people. Cindy enjoys cheering others on and celebrating their successes, so much so that perhaps professional cheerleading should have been one of her career paths, although all that jumping and flipping would have ended that career quickly. During her time here, she’s helped create student curriculum, shored up student testing, improved volunteer onboarding processes and contributed to vital grant reporting.
Julie Ball
Student Intake and Curriculum Coordinator
Julie was born in Anchorage, Alaska and raised in Colorado and New Mexico where she developed a love of the great outdoors. She loves camping, hiking and fly fishing. She received her undergraduate degree in Economics with a minor in Sociology. Her interest in economic development stemmed from her lobbying efforts to promote Indian gaming at the Roundhouse and her experience with Amigos de las Americas in Latin America as a teenager. Since that time, she has devoted herself to volunteer work in the areas of immigration, education and environmentalism. Seeing people realize their dreams and empower themselves through education is one of her greatest joys. She spent many years being an ESL teacher overseas in places, such as China, Cuba, Spain, and Chile and as a math tutor. Watching people set their goals and achieve them through literacy is an amazing, transformative journey that she is honored to be a part of at Ethos Literacy. When Julie is not admiring awesome people, who are improving themselves, she spends her time at the Bio-Park watching otters and trying to stay vertical on roller skates.
