Who We Are

Board Members

Georgia Alice Darehshori

Georgia is Co-Founder, with her late husband, Gholi Darehshori, of G&G Darehshori Foundation. She is C.E.O. (Chief Entertainment Officer) of Peninsula Polymers, Inc. (Gholi’s company) and Owner and Manager of Casa Karma Private Villa and Event Space in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico since 2006. Georgia is also Founder of the Prophet of the Non-Profits project supporting all qualified small charities in Puerto Vallarta.

Mansur Kiadeh

Mansur is a retired electronics engineer. He worked in the Silicon Valley high-tech industry as an entrepreneur and Director of Engineering for 36 years. He has 16 patents in different high-tech subjects. His passion is photography and hanging out with friends, his three children and six grandchildren.

Erika Larios

Erika was born in Mexico City and graduated from the Universidad Panamericana de Hotelería in 1994 with a Bachelor’s degree in Hotel Administration. She began collaborating with companies to plan events. She also worked in the food and beverage area for a couple of years in the cafeteria of a major University in Mexico City. Starting in 2003, she joined a property management company, which led her to manage luxury properties, forming solid and reliable work teams. This company became one of the top commercial property management companies with added value of legal and accounting advice in Mexico City. It was wonderful opportunity that she enjoyed thoroughly and which taught her to interact with people of different nationalities and with different tastes and needs. After 13 years of managing condominiums, in 2016 Erika moved to Puerto Vallarta with a new company and it was surprised to discover that the English language was essential to survive, so she learned quickly. Erika then met Georgia and Gholi Darehshori; It only took a few days for her to become a great admirer of the work they seek to do for the Puerto Vallarta community. In 2019, Erika began working at the beautiful villa Casa Karma which has changed her life and where she learned to see life from a new perspective.

Norma Loeb

Norma is Founder & Executive Director of the Lewy Body Dementia Resource Center. Norma’s knowledge and experience with Lewy body dementia (LBD) began with the personal care of her mother. She leads local and national support groups for people living with LBD and caregivers. Norma worked as executive assistant to the CFO at The New York Times Company for over 20 years. While there, she served as chairperson of the work/life committee of The Times’ women’s affinity group and initiated and ran their eldercare support group. She is also Executive Director and a co-founder of the nonprofit organization, What BETTER Looks Like, based in New York.

Simona M. Pop, MD

Dr. Simona Pop was born in Austria and educated in multiple countries. She is fluent in English and German, and understands several other European languages. She is part of the Holistic Bio Spa clinics in Mexico. From teaching seminars of OMM in Dallas, TX and Phoenix, AZ, to diagnosing and treating patients with heavy metal allergies, food allergies, cross allergies, and other diseases, Dr. Simona provides her patients with a compassionate and professional orthomolecular approach to help them regain a better quality of life.

Elizabeth Macqueen

Elizabeth is Founder and Owner of MacQueen Fine Art since 1978. Living and working in 9 countries has taught her the delicacy of negotiations in diverse cultures. Negotiating with Pat Summit for her 32-foot monument for the Women’s Basketball of Fame was not a slam dunk. Working with the Chinese Historical Society in California while creating the first monument in the U.S. to honor Chinese Pioneers building the US Transcontinental, as the only Caucasian, was a tremendous honor and a stepping stone into Asian culture. Her talent, compassion and empathy were instrumental in winning the Four Spirits bronze memorial in 2013 of the four girls murdered by the KKK in Birmingham, Alabama. MacQueen has dedicated her life to social justice and opening up difficult dialogue thru her fine art.