Staff & Board of Directors

Ms. Froyla Tzalam – Executive Director

Froyla Tzalam is a Mopan Maya from San Antonio, Toledo. She has a first degree in Anthropology and a Masters in Rural Development. She believes that all people must know their history in order to promote and protect their identity and culture.

She has worked in the fields of culture, history and indigenous rights over the past decades. She wrote a grammar book on Mopan Maya and numerous articles on culture and identity. She was co-director of the African Maya History Project and for which she wrote co-authored New Vision. During her time with the National Institute of Culture and History, she curated numerous exhibitions on Belize’s culture and history. Froyla was most recently the Managing Director of Tumul K’in Center of Learning, a Maya values based high school in Blue Creek.