Otra Cosa used to be run by just Peter and Juany, a husband (English) and wife (Peruvian) team, living in the seaside town of Huanchaco in Northern Peru. However as the organisation has succesfully grown and developed we've gradually expanded and strengthened the Otra Cosa Network team.
Otra Cosa got a new name, Otra Cosa Network in 2009 when Peter and Juany decided to return to England to live and appoint an Operations Manager and Assistant Manager to run the local operations in Peru, while they continued to be involved in recruitment, promotions, web-site and overall management from the UK.
The new team then included Najin Kim who joined us from South Korea as our new Operations Manager, and a part-time Assistant Manager. Between them they ran the local operations here in Peru from late 2009 until mid 2011. In 2011, we have further strengthened the team appointing Dale Novotny as full-time Assistant Manager and Emily Skinner as Project Co-ordinator. You can find out all about the OCN team members in the details below.
Peter Murphy - Director, Otra Cosa Network, UK
Peter is an English man who has lived and worked in Brazil, Germany and Peru as well as the U.K. Originally a mathematician and an accountant, he took an MBA and became Business Planning Manager and Financial Controller at Land Rover.
After 29 years working in the automotive industry, in 2005 he came to live with Juany and their three boys here in Huanchaco. He was a part-time English teacher and volunteer for Otra Cosa before starting to jointly run OCN.
Juany Murphy - International Liaison Manager, Otra Cosa Network, UK
Juany holds a BA in Sociology and a MA in Human Rights, She is a p/t University lecturer in Sociology . She has been involved in community and human rights issues for the last fifteen years. Passionate about social movements and helping others to make this a more just world. Mother of three boys.
Najin Kim - Operations Manager, Otra Cosa Network, Peru
She is in charge of the management of Otra Cosa Network’s operations in Peru. Born and raised in Korea, she calls many places in the world ‘home’, after spending good amount of period of her life in Asia, South/ Central/ North Americas, Oceania, Middle East, Europe and in Africa for work, travel and study. She did MA in Development Studies in Holland, and also holds BA in Political Science and International Relations from Korea. As the title of her MA specialization - Politics of Alternative Development - implies, she has been trying many ‘alternative’ aspects of development practices and also life in general, including ‘Otra Cosa’! She has good and very loud laugh, which can easily be one of the loudest ones that you’ve ever heard!
Emily Skinner - Project Coordinator, Otra Cosa Network, Peru
She is the coordinator for the Huanchaco Education and Learning Project. She holds a BA in Spanish and Portuguese from Rutgers University in New Jersey from which she hails. She has recently received her MS in Conflict Resolution from Nova Southerneastern Univeristy in South Florida. She plans to apply the conflict resolution skills she has learned to different project at Otra Cosa!
