Mountain West Cultural Exchange
Board of Directors
Our mission is to foster relationships between people of different countries by providing cultural education experiences for delegates from foreign countries coming to the United States and for United States delegates to have that same opportunity.
Maresa Manzione
Chair – Teen Counselors
Maresa has been involved with foreign exchange programs since a young age as both a host family & a volunteer. She participated in a homestay as a teen and as a university student and finds any opportunity to go back to Japan. Maresa helps with keeping the program running smoothly throughout the year as well as overseeing our teen counselor program.
Please contact her at mwcexchange@gmail.com
Carri Hunt
Vice Chair – Public Relations
Carri has volunteered with overseeing another exchange program, helping in many different ways, for over 20 years previous to the beginning of MWCE. Carri talks with our partners in Japan and has even been able to take 2 groups of teen delegates on homestay to Japan as a chaperone!
Eileen Moss
Treasurer
Eileen has volunteered with a different exchange program for about 15 years prior to MWCE. She worked as the Chief of Operations and Head Chef for many years for the program’s Spring and Summer camps. She now takes care of the finances.
Clay Chugg
Operations Specialist – Translator
Clay spent many years involved as a volunteer with another foreign exchange program previous to joining our team. He served an LDS mission in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. Clay is a great help as a translator and is now our Operations Specialist. He is always looking for opportunities to help our delegates.