Board of Directors

Board President

Dr. Scott Pike is a 1970 graduate of Pacific University College of Optometry. In 2006 he retired from private practice and worked as an assistant professor in clinical instruction at the College until 2020. Enfoque Ixcán was created in 1997 by Scott and a health promoter, Pedro Chom, in the village of Santa Maria Tzeja, Ixcán. Even though neither could speak the other’s language, their dedication to the project overcame that barrier. Now, 47 trips to Ixcán later, Scott and Pedro continue to lead Enfoque Ixcán which has served over 23,000 people. Scott is on the board of directors of Amigos Eye Care.

Board Treasurer

Dwight Fleck has been employed in risk management for over 37 years as an analyst, manager and consultant. He has also served as a leader in a boys camping based program for over 20 years. For over 15 years he served as Treasurer and member of the Board of two churches.

Social Media Manager

Dr. Jessica A. Lynch graduated from Pacific University College of Optometry and is the co-owner of a private optometry clinic in Hillsboro, Oregon. She is a past adjunct faculty at Pacific University and first traveled as a member of the Enfoque Ixcan medical team in 2017.

Jessica has a deep interest in public health and loves to travel. She is married, with four (mostly-grown) children and an old pug named Oscar.

Ali Durbin, a Massachusetts native, has lived in Guatemala since 2000. She is a freelance consultant, editor, writer, interpreter, and translator for several non-profit organizations in the fields of social and environmental justice, education, and health care.

She participates in communications, fundraising, and advocacy work for causes that link communities in Guatemala and the US. Ali lives in the Sacatepéquez region and regularly visits the Ixcán. 

2023 Amigos Eye Care Representative

Anna Wisdom is a graduate student at Pacific University College of Optometry in Forest Grove, OR. She is the current President of AMIGOS Eye Care, a non profit organization at Pacific University and partner of Enfoque Ixcán. Anna is passionate about serving underprivileged communities locally and globally, especially through providing eye care. In her free time Anna enjoys exploring the Pacific Northwest’s beautiful hikes, playing card games, and baking sourdough bread.

Dr. Natividad Chom, “Naty”, graduated as a doctor and surgeon from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala in 2020. She began her postgraduate studies in Antigua, Guatemala as a resident of Internal Medicine at the Pedro Bethancourt Hospital.

Dr. Chom was raised in Santa Maria Tzeja, a village in Ixcán, where her father volunteered as a village health promoter: there were no doctors in the area.

In her childhood, she accompanied her father, Pedro Chom, and a group of Enfoque Ixcán eye surgery patients, to the eye clinic, Visualiza. She received an eye exam at that time and that motivated her to study medicine. Dr. Chom is happy to be a part of the Enfoque Ixcán team.

Emiliano Panjoj Pérez is Maya K’iche’ and was born and still lives in the Community of Santa María Tzejá, Ixcán municipality, department of Quiché, Guatemala.

He is an Agricultural Engineer in Renewable Natural Resources with a degree from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Emiliano has supported the education of his community as a high school teacher, community leader and City Councilor for the Municipality of Ixcán.

For the last 13 years he has been providing his professional services managing his own economic initiative called TopoCampo. Emiliano supports collective struggles including the defense of nature, community organizing and local economic development for community well-being.