NORTH COAST, Calif. – “Women’s Voices” on KZYX FM will host Lisa Sullivan, Latin America coordinator of School of the Americas Watch, on Thursday, Sept. 13.

Sullivan will join host Janie Rezner at 7 p.m. The show can be heard on www.kzyx.org and will be archived at www.radio4all.net under Rezner’s name.

Sullivan, who will be speaking in Marin on Thursday, Sept. 16, was born and raised in the United States.

After studying in Mexico, Guatemala and Columbia, she accepted a position in Bolivia as a community organizer with the Maryknoll Lay Missioners. In 1988 she transfered to Venezuela where she raised her three children.

In 2005 Sullivan joined Fr. Roy Bourgeois in launching the Latin America initiative of the School of the American Watch, which seeks to engage countries in efforts to close the School of the Americas.

She and Bourgeois have visited 18 Latin American nations that were sending troops to the SOA and have met with eight presidents – Zelaya, Arias, Morales, Ortega, Chavez, Lugo and Lobo. As a result of these visits, five countries have announced they will no longer be sending troops to the SOA.
 
Sullivan has led several task force-sponsored delegations to Latin America, often with Bourgeois, and has given participants a rare opportunity to meet high-level national figures as well as leaders of popular social movements.

Rezner and Sullivan will discuss Chavez and life in Venezuela.