Steve Mack

Steve Mack first visited Costa Rica in 1984 as a volunteer with an experimental project to use sail power to support fishing communities on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. After graduating from law school in the U.S., he returned to Costa Rica In 1989, where he joined a group of attorneys, law professors and students to launch Latin America's first organization dedicated to the development of environmental law. After spending the next 18 years working on land conservation projects throughout Costa Rica and in other countries of Central America, he served for several years as editor and writer for The Tico Times, Costa Rica's English language newspaper. In 2014 he moved to Guanacaste as the founding director of the Guanacaste Community Fund, a nonprofit devoted to building community-based organizations and promoting grass-roots development throughout the province. Upon leaving the community fund, he joined Coldwell Banker Pacific Realty as their representative for the highlands of the Nicoya Peninsula. He lives In Hojancha, a small mountain town in the heart of the Nicoya Peninsula Blue Zone.