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Our Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors
The Board of Directors governs The Free Citizen Project. The Board operates on a "macro-level"; it establishes broad policies and is ultimately responsible for determining the Projects with which we will be involved. The Board delegates the task of carrying out its policies to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The CEO oversees the day-to-day operations of the Organization. The CEO designates a Project Coordinator for each Project, who is responsible for overseeing the work of our volunteers on their assigned Project.
Erwin Kratz
Attorney
ERISA Benefits Law Group, PLLC
Erwin Kratz is an attorney with ERISA Benefits Law Group, PLLC. He practices exclusively in the areas of ERISA and employee benefits law, focusing on tax and regulatory matters relating to qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation plans and welfare benefits.
After fifteen years with a 190 lawyer regional firm, Erwin founded ERISA Benefits Law in 2016 to pursue the dream of fully employing the tools provided by the information technology revolution to improve client service while reducing the cost of legal services. Today, the firm includes three lawyers and counts among its clients a national engineering firm, Southwest Airlines, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona, the largest health insurer in the state of Arizona.
Erwin brings significant experience serving as a Board member on tax exempt organizations, including as President of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra from 2009 to 2011, and as a Board member of San Miguel High School from 2021 to the present.
When he is not working, Erwin enjoys swimming for exercise and traveling to foreign countries with his wife and family.
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Our Project Coordinators
Our Project Coordinators
Project Coordinator of Student Tuition Scholarships in South Africa
Project Coordinator of Student Tuition Scholarships in South Africa
Marianne Lachenicht
Grade One Co-Ordinator and Grade One Teacher
Grayston Preparatory School, Gauteng, South Africa
Marianne Lachenicht is a mother and teacher with 42 years of educational experience in South Africa. She teaches in the junior school at Grayston Preparatory School, where the focus is on language development, teaching reading and writing and mathematics.
Marianne has a 4year HDIP ED degree. She is passionate about teaching children to think and to realize that they can do so much more than they think they can do.
Project Coordinator of Health Care Provider Training in South Africa
Project Coordinator of Health Care Provider Training in South Africa
Mark Jankelow is a Board-Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and the Founder & CEO of Springbok Health, Inc., a leading behavioral health practice with multiple locations across Colorado. Since 2015, Mark has grown the practice to a team of 24 employees, including psychiatric nurse practitioners, therapists, and case managers who collectively serve more than 2,000 active clients.
He holds a Master of Science in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from CSU-Pueblo, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sports Science from the University of Denver. With full prescriptive authority in Colorado, Mark specializes in medication management, substance use treatment, and complex psychiatric conditions such as PTSD, ADHD, mood disorders, TBI, and depression. He is also recognized for his specialized Vivitrol protocol, having administered over 6,000 injections.
Beyond his clinical leadership, Mark is a consultant, educator, and international speaker, serving on advisory boards, contributing to psychiatric publications, and mentoring the next generation of nurse practitioners. He is passionate about equitable mental health care, innovative telehealth services, and community advocacy.
Stuart Diesel
Retired Mechanical Engineer and Entrepreneur
Project Coordinator of Children's Care Center (or similar)
Project Coordinator of Children's Care Center (or similar)
Stuart is a retired professional Mechanical Engineer (BSc Eng Wits) and entrepreneur.
Born and educated in South Africa he specialized in Fluid Power Engineering and owned a very successful distribution and bespoke system building company in the UK, which he sold in 2017.
While travelling overland across Africa in 1992, Stuart experienced first-hand the challenges people face in sub-Sahara Africa, and the passion and ingenuity employed by many to rise up against these challenges. He is highly motivated to help in any way he can.
Since retiring, Stuart has kept himself busy with numerous personal projects including building a 27ft sail boat, which he sails all around the UK and Irish coast, numerous house renovation projects and brewing beer, including designing and building his own bespoke automated brewery.
Stuart also spends a few months each year travelling around remote areas of Southern Africa in his truck and off-road camping trailer.
Project Coordinator of Tutoring English as a Second Language in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Project Coordinator of Tutoring English as a Second Language in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Erwin Kratz is an attorney with ERISA Benefits Law Group, PLLC. He practices exclusively in the areas of ERISA and employee benefits law, focusing on tax and regulatory matters relating to qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation plans and welfare benefits.
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