GET TO KNOW OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF
All-Volunteer Board of Directors
None of the Board Receives Financial Compensation for their Involvement
- Richard St.Denis
Richard is the Director and Founder of World Access Project. Previously he was the Recreation & Sports Director of The Mobility Project, until the organization closed in August 2009. He and his wife, Daniela, live in Mexico full-time. He has been providing wheelchairs to people with disabilities throughout the world since 1997. Richard is a retired attorney and a service-connected disabled veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He is a certified Ski & Tennis Instructor for people with disabilities. In 2011 he was selected as one of CNN Top 10 Heroes for his work with World Access Project.
Richard’s vision for World Access Project is to provide mobility equipment to 1,000 people each year and develop a ‘Life Rehabilitation Center’ facility, where people can receive 'life rehabilitation' - learn to use their wheelchairs, learn life-skills that will provide them with employment, develop their self-confidence and independence, and a spiritual base to bring people closer to God. He hopes someday it will be run by Mexican people with disabilities to help other disabled Mexicans.
David and Eileen Wise
David & Eileen Wise
David and Eileen were married in 2014 and spent their honeymoon serving on the mission-field in Mexico with World Access Project. David is the President of our Board of Directors. They live in Mariposa, California where David is a general contractor. David has travelled to many countries to donate wheelchairs to those who don’t have them. He collects used wheelchairs in Mariposa, California and surrounding communities, and helps us get them to Mexico to help those who so desperately need mobility. He is a great help in organizing the construction projects to make people’s homes more accessible. He is the team leader of the group that comes to Mexico from Mariposa each summer.
Dr. Eileen Wise is a graduate of University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and practices veterinary medicine at her clinic, All Creatures Veterinary Hospital in Mariposa, California. To bring awareness and financial support to World Access Project's ministry, Eileen spends a week working in a wheelchair. She also helped to raise funds, expand public support and support World Access Project's mission. Eileen is a dedicated mother to her twin sons, Lonnie and Jamie.
David and Eileen were married in 2014 and spent their honeymoon serving on the mission-field in Mexico with World Access Project. David is the President of our Board of Directors. They live in Mariposa, California where David is a general contractor. David has travelled to many countries to donate wheelchairs to those who don’t have them. He collects used wheelchairs in Mariposa, California and surrounding communities, and helps us get them to Mexico to help those who so desperately need mobility. He is a great help in organizing the construction projects to make people’s homes more accessible. He is the team leader of the group that comes to Mexico from Mariposa each summer.
Dr. Eileen Wise is a graduate of University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and practices veterinary medicine at her clinic, All Creatures Veterinary Hospital in Mariposa, California. To bring awareness and financial support to World Access Project's ministry, Eileen spends a week working in a wheelchair. She also helped to raise funds, expand public support and support World Access Project's mission. Eileen is a dedicated mother to her twin sons, Lonnie and Jamie.
Patrick & Adalid McEvoy
Patrick & Adalid McEvoy
Patrick is from Bellingham, Washington. He has lived in various parts of Mexico, in various areas for many years. Patrick is an entrepreneur and has businesses in the U.S. and Mexico. Patrick helps with mobility equipment collection in the U.S., project development and future planning. Patrick's vast experience and passion to help people with disabilities, is a great asset to improving and advancing what we do. Adalid is from San Felipe del Progreso, Mexico, close to where we are based.
Patrick is from Bellingham, Washington. He has lived in various parts of Mexico, in various areas for many years. Patrick is an entrepreneur and has businesses in the U.S. and Mexico. Patrick helps with mobility equipment collection in the U.S., project development and future planning. Patrick's vast experience and passion to help people with disabilities, is a great asset to improving and advancing what we do. Adalid is from San Felipe del Progreso, Mexico, close to where we are based.
Todd Langton
Todd lives in San Jose, CA and is a financial advisor. He is a huge help in making connections, providing structural and financial support and has a very friendly, helpful spirit, and a huge desire to help others.
Along with World Access Project, Todd is involved with helping the San Francisco homeless and Boy Scouts of America. Truly a man with a big heart and many talents!
Todd lives in San Jose, CA and is a financial advisor. He is a huge help in making connections, providing structural and financial support and has a very friendly, helpful spirit, and a huge desire to help others.
Along with World Access Project, Todd is involved with helping the San Francisco homeless and Boy Scouts of America. Truly a man with a big heart and many talents!
Mexico Staff
Hazuki Yamada
Hazuki is the Director of our Harmony School. She was born and raised in Japan until she was 13 years old, when her family moved to Mexico because of her father’s business. After living in Guadalajara three years she returned to Japan and finished high school and university. With God’s guidance she returned to Guadalajara to the school she had attended as a student, and became a teacher at a Christian, bilingual school for ten years. In 2010 she started Harmony School for those who don't have the opportunity to get an education because of their disability, problems adjusting to a normal school, or family issues. Harmony is a Christian, bilingual school, from kindergarten through high school, that uses A.C.E. (Accelerated Christian Education), teaching system, the system which she used while student and teacher in Guadalajara. We presently have 50 students, with and without disabilities. The goal of the school is that students with and without disabilities receive a high level of education, live in harmony together, and be prepared to love and serve God and others from their heart, with excellency in academic abilities and character.
Hazuki is the Director of our Harmony School. She was born and raised in Japan until she was 13 years old, when her family moved to Mexico because of her father’s business. After living in Guadalajara three years she returned to Japan and finished high school and university. With God’s guidance she returned to Guadalajara to the school she had attended as a student, and became a teacher at a Christian, bilingual school for ten years. In 2010 she started Harmony School for those who don't have the opportunity to get an education because of their disability, problems adjusting to a normal school, or family issues. Harmony is a Christian, bilingual school, from kindergarten through high school, that uses A.C.E. (Accelerated Christian Education), teaching system, the system which she used while student and teacher in Guadalajara. We presently have 50 students, with and without disabilities. The goal of the school is that students with and without disabilities receive a high level of education, live in harmony together, and be prepared to love and serve God and others from their heart, with excellency in academic abilities and character.
Tito Bautista
Tito Bautista
Tito is our Director of Sports & Recreation. He and his wife, Conny, live in Chapala, Mexico. Tito represented Mexico in the ParaPanamerican Games, competing in tennis. He has been playing and coaching wheelchair sports all of his life. Tito has great compassion to motivate and empower other people with disabilities, using sports to show them that they can do many things and
be successful in their life.
Tito is our Director of Sports & Recreation. He and his wife, Conny, live in Chapala, Mexico. Tito represented Mexico in the ParaPanamerican Games, competing in tennis. He has been playing and coaching wheelchair sports all of his life. Tito has great compassion to motivate and empower other people with disabilities, using sports to show them that they can do many things and
be successful in their life.
Donation Center and Harmony School Staff
At our Donation Center and at Harmony School a staff of Mexican workers, with and without disabilities, make the daily ministry of World Access Project possible. Our Donation Center has a staff of 6 at our Donation Center who help donate, refurbish and repair wheelchairs. Harmony School has a staff of 10, who help the students learn, motivate them and encourage them.
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