About TBI
TBI Advisory Council
The primary purpose of the TBI Advisory Council is to assist with the development of the Trans-Border Institute (TBI) as an organization that maintains a strong binational community presence in the greater San Diego-Tijuana region. The Advisory Council will counsel and make recommendations concerning the strategic direction of TBI.
Janice Deaton
Practitioner Founder
Corazón Global
Janice Deaton is a native San Diegan, who graduated from San Diego State University with degrees in Greek and Roman Classics and Spanish. She received a certificate of completion in Spanish at the University of Granada in Spain, and went to law school at the University of San Francisco where she graduatedcum laude. Janice’s interest in civil rights took her to the field of criminal law, which has been her specialty for almost two decades. In 2006, she founded a non-profit in Tijuana Mexico, “Corazon Global,” which is a contemplative studies institute and includes outreach to children in Tijuana with workshops centering on self-esteem. She is fluent in Spanish. Her work at Corazon Global has taken Janice around the world including Russia, Ukraine, Peru, Mexico City and England, where she taught and facilitated conferences. Her specialty at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies is Human Rights.
Eugenio Elorduy Walther
Former Governor
State of Baja California
Eugenio Elorduy Walther was born on November21, 1940. In the private sector, he was president of Mexicali’s Employers Assoc. (COPARMEX) and of the New Automobile Dealers Association of Baja California, was founding member of Mexicali’s Economic Development Council, also, and was in five occasions, National President of the Ford Dealers Assoc. In the political Arena, Mr. Elorduy is a lifetime member of the National and State PAN councils. He was the first PAN Mayor of Mexicali (state capital), from 1995-1998, and he was elected Governor of Baja California in July 8, 2001 (2001-2007). Currently he is CEO Autopasian Dealer Group with Ford, Toyota and Mazda operations in Baja California and Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Elorduy holds a University Degree in Business Administration from the Monterrey Technological Institute (ITESM), where he graduated with honors in 1965.
José Larroque
Partner
Baker & McKenzie
His area of practice includes general corporate and real estate law with a primary focus on real estate transactions involving retail, industrial, residential and resort development throughout Mexico and Latin America. He specializes in advising foreign and domestic investors on structuring cross-border real estate transactions for the acquisition, development, and financing of real estate projects in Mexico and Latin America. José is the Coordinator of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group in Mexico and Latin America.
Mr. Larroque obtained his law degree from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 1983, and his Masters in International Law from Columbia University in New York City in 1989. He joined the firm on 1986 and became Principal Partner in 1995. He is a Founder and Board Member of Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad in Tijuana, a member of the International Finance Committee for the Hospital Infantil de las Californias in Tijuana, a member of the Advisory Board for the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, and a Board Member of Centro de Educación Espacial Pasitos.
Mr. Larroque is also a former member of the San Diego Dialogue, the Board of Overseers of the University of California San Diego, Board member of the International Community Foundation, member of the Board of Advisors for Baja California of the San Diego Union Tribune, and a Charter Member of the Patronato Escuela para Padres of Tijuana.
Hon. Runston G. Maino
Judge of the Superior Court
State of California, San Diego County
Hon. Runston G. Maino is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley. After attending UC Berkeley, he gave service in the U.S. Marine Corps. Hon. Maino continued onto law school at the University of Minnesota and the University of San Francisco. He served 13 years as a Deputy District Attorney and 29 years as a Judge. He has made 3 trips to Mexico with the California Judge Association to meet with Mexican Judges to show them how the U.S. system of public and oral trial work.
Jonathan Salgado
Global Initiatives
Jonathan Salgado is an ordained minister and psychologist. After more than 40 years of work in institutions of higher education, churches, and organizations of human development in Europe, the United States and Latin America, these last few years Dr. Salgado has dedicated his time to work on the advancement and studies focused on leadership development, poverty alleviation and the strengthening of the family in Latin America, facilitating international relations to enable social and economic development, and helping families and couples through counseling, support groups, workshops and retreats. He leads small fellowship groups of political leaders, emerging leaders, married couples, and young people in Mexico City, and the cities of San Cristobal and Tuxtla Gutierrez, capital of the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Dr. Salgado helps in facilitating the work of several organizations of human development in Latin America, and often travels to different countries as visiting professor and guest speaker for international events; he is an adjunct professor in the School of Theology of Olivet Nazarene University and Northwest Nazarene University.Dr. Salgado has written several books in the field of theology, education and pastoral psychology. He holds a Master’s degree in Religion (Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA), and a Doctoral Degree in Theology and Counseling Psychology (Claremont Graduate School of Theology, Claremont, CA).
Miguel Sarre
Professor & Investigator
Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
Miguel Sarre has been a law professor at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM ) in Mexico City since 1977. He developed Mexico’s first National Human Rights Ombudsman office, (National Commission for Human Rights, CNDH) which opened in the State of Aguascalientes. Prof. Sarre served on CNDH’s directive posts from 1991 to 1996, and continues to conduct a watchdog program on the National Ombudsman Office with a grant from MacArthur Foundation. In 2003 he was one of the four selected consultants who drafted the Diagnostic on the Human Rights Situation in Mexico on behalf of the Representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He was instrumental in Mexico’s adoption of the legal reforms in Mexico in 2008, and his current posts include acting as representative for the academic sector on the Secretaría del Consejo de Coordinación para la Implementación del Sistema de Justicia Penal (SETEC). SETEC oversees the implementation of the legal reforms throughout Mexico. He is also a member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Elsa Saxod
SAXOD Enterprises
Elsa Saxod, graduate of San Diego State University, was born in the United States and raised in Mexico. Ms. Saxod began her professional career as a Spanish instructor, first in a classroom and later for the Peace Corps. She went on to work for a Senate staff in Washington D.C. and for Fronteras de las Californias, a non-profit organization charged with identifying channels of communication between San Diego and Baja California. She was appointed Director of the Office of California/Mexico Affairs and served as Executive Director of the US/Mexico Border Progress Foundation (BPF).
She is currently heading up the Office of Binational Affairs for the City of San Diego, the liaison office between the City of San Diego and Mexico.
Allen Snyder
Law Professor
University of San Diego School of Law
Allen Snyder i s a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. Professor Snyder practiced commercial law with a private law firm and poverty law with the San Diego Legal Aid Society before joining the faculty in 1978. He has worked extensively with the National Institute for Trial Advocacyas a program director and teacher. Most of his law school teaching is in clinical settings, including the areas of negotiations, interviewing and counseling, trial practice, and live-client clinics. He has also directed and taught in the University of San Diego's Institute for International and Comparative law in Spain, Italy, England and Ireland. In addition to teaching at the University of San Diego he has created, directed and taught in advocacy skills legal education programs for practicing lawyers in the United States, England, Australia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia. Most recently he organized, directed and taught oral trial skills programs in Guanajuato, Mexico and under a USAID grant partnership between the University of San Diego, its Trans Border Institute and the Universida Autonoma de Baja California at Mexicali. He has published articles in the field of patient competency and co-authored A Practical Guide to California Evidence (National Institute for Trial Advocacy) and (with Professor Grant H. Morris) Mental Disorder in the Criminal Process (Greenwood Press).
