Margret Ellwanger
Founder and CEO
Margret Ellwanger
Founder and CEO
Margret’s commitment to community service traces back to her graduate studies in physics at the Technical University of Munich where along with a team based at IIT Madras she developed windmills in off grid rural India. Since 1997 she has partnered with Cambodian organizations to shape integrated development projects and programs in Cambodia. In 2005 her focus expanded to empower Bedouin women and create peace building projects rooted in education and nature in Israel.
Margret founded forPEACE in 2011 to work side-by-side with locals to build thriving communities in harmony with nature. forPEACE has been present in Ukraine since 2014 helping artisans and small business owner to generate income. With the invasion of Ukraine, forPEACE felt a moral obligation to provide integrated war relief responding to multifaceted needs of frontline communities.
Heather Willoughby
Director
Heather Willoughby
Director
Heather Willoughby originally hails from Colorado, where she honed her love of the great outdoors, but has spent more than a quarter of her life living abroad, primarily in South Korea. She has long sought to combine her interests in travel and anthropological studies with her desire to learn and serve wherever she goes.
She is trained in ethnomusicology (focused on Korean traditional music) and socio-cultural anthropology and currently works as an Associate Professor at Ewha Womans University in International Relations and Development & Cooperation. She is designated as the forPEACE Academic Advisor and Monitor & Evaluator, where she performs oversight duties and works closely with other team members to organize and promote Service-Leaning opportunities and to document the work in both social media and academic forums.
Barbara Harper
Director and Treasurer
Barbara Harper
Director and Treasurer
Barbara Harper was born and raised in Utah and currently lives there. She has a Bachelors degree in Accounting from the University of Utah and has worked as a Controller for 32 years. During this time, she has learned a lot about running successful businesses.
She went on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to South Korea in 1986, where she met Heather Willoughby. They have remained friends for 30+ years. Barbara joined Heather on a humanitarian trip to Kenya, and in 2019, she traveled to Cambodia with ForPEACE and loved it! Service-learning trips are her favorite!
She has three awesome children and enjoys traveling as well as going to Disneyland.