Luis Re Marrero,

Executive Director

Luis Re ha estado desarrollando empresas comunitarias emergentes para servir a las personas sin hogar y promover la salud pública, la justicia social y la justicia ambiental. En 2011, fue enviado a Port-au-Prince, Haití para liderar una brigada internacional de salud en respuesta al terremoto de 2010. En 2014, lanzó Raices Urbanas, un programa de salud pública de Caras con Causa para mejorar las condiciones de vida en la contaminada Cuenca Aérea de Cataño. Después de los huracanes Irma y María, el sirvió como primer respondedor con Caras con Causa. Luis Re tiene una licenciatura en biología de la Universidad de Puerto Rico y una maestría en Administración Pública de la Universidad de Rutgers. También le gusta pensar que es un chef tailandés y un granjero genuino.

Liza Morales Ortiz,

Director of Operations

Liza is a Public Health specialist and researcher with extensive experience in mentoring, development and management of community projects, as well as social, clinical, and academic research. Throughout her career, she has worked on humanitarian and social projects in Haiti, Guatemala, Mexico, and Nepal. In Puerto Rico, she has collaborated with various non-profit organizations and independent projects such as the PR Community Foundation, Flamboyán Foundation, Iniciativa Comunitaria, Taller Salud, and the San Juan Bay Estuary Program, the Climate Beacon project of the journalistic platform 9 Millions and the International Network of Journalism Solutions among others. She also served for seven years as a professor for the International Studies and Global Communication program at the Ferré Rangel School of Communication at the Sacred Heart University in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Emily Alfred,

Project Manager

Originally from Washington state, Emily has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Education and Disaster Risk Reduction. Emily came to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria and Irma to volunteer rebuilding roofs in Yabucoa and Humacoa. What started as a temporary commitment sparked a new career path and love for the island. Emily has worked in the field of construction for the last 6 years as a carpenter, foreman, on-site supervisor, volunteer trainer, case assessor, project coordinator and project manager. In her free time Emily can be found planning an adventure or playing in the ocean.

Frank Martinez,

Financial Manager

Frank Martinez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Cupey. He studied Accounting at UMET Ana G Mendez University in Cupey. Frank began volunteering as a financial advisor for PRoTechos. He was drawn to PRoTechos because of the  dual mission of working directly with communities by rebuilding roofs while providing vocational  training. Frank enjoys meeting new people and learning new things like building roofs.

Emily N. Roisman,

President and CLO

​Emily es miembro fundador de PRoTechos y se desempeña como presidenta de la junta directiva y su directora jurídica. Emily tiene más de 30 años de experiencia como abogada comercial, primero como litigante corporativa y luego como abogada interna, brindando asesoría legal enfocada en los negocios y redactando y negociando contratos para empresas públicas y privadas. Recibió su título universitario de Dartmouth College y su doctorado en derecho de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Connecticut.

Anita Montaner Sevillano, Vice President

Anita es miembro capital y presidenta del Grupo de práctica de derecho laboral y laboral en McConnell Valdes en su oficina de San Juan, PR. Ha sido miembro del Comité de Políticas de la firma durante los últimos 12 años, participando como miembro con derecho a voto en todos los asuntos y decisiones relacionados con el gobierno y la gestión de la firma, y se ha desempeñado como Secretaria del Comité de Políticas durante 8 años. Recibió su licenciatura de Boston College y su doctorado en derecho de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. 

Javier A. Ojeda Guadalupe, Treasurer

Javier Ojeda is an auditor in the PricewaterhouseCoopers San Juan Office. He has been with the firm for five years with experience in various industries including banking, manufacturing, and insurance. In addition, Javier worked for various years with the non-profit Caras con Causa, in which he worked with on-field educational and environmental projects, donor compliance and accounting. He has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with concentrations in accounting and marketing from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, and he has been a licensed CPA since 2017.

Edna Echandi-Guzman, Secretary

Edna Echandi-Guzmán, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a partner at Marvel Architects. During the course of her career, she has played a pivotal role in numerous architecture and urban planning ventures across Puerto Rico and New York, making significant contributions to projects including the El Portal de El Yunque Visitor’s Center, Arlo Midtown Hotel in Manhattan, as well as Master Plans for educational institutions like Sagrado Corazon University, UPR’s Bayamon campus, and Robinson School.

Edna also lends her expertise to non-profit organizations throughout the island, offering support to initiatives like Ciudadanos del Karso and Mujeres de Islas in project planning and design, and has served a two year term as the Governing Board Secretary for the Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajistas de Puerto Rico.

Her educational background includes Bachelor and Master degrees in architecture from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, and a second Master’s degree in Architecture from Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.