The Zayante Institute is a non-profit organization under the fiscal sponsorship of the Romero Institute, a 501 (C) 3 not for profit corporation. Dr. Randolfo Pozos and Dr. Kathleen Brewer de Pozos founded the Zayante Institute to promote individual and social happiness, health, and holiness as the fulfillment of human potential. Randy and Kathy are anthropologists who have spent most of their careers advocating and creating access to health and human services for marginalized groups, including the Lakota Child Rescue Project, the National Hispanic University, and the Nepal Blindness Project.
Randolfo R. Pozos, Ph.D. and Kathleen Brewer de Pozos, Ph.D. are both are graduates of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, where Randy majored in biology and philosophy and Kathy majored in biology and Spanish. They are both members of Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit University honor society focused on scholarship and service.
Randy received a master’s degree in public health planning and administration from U.C. Berkeley in1976 and a doctorate in social cultural anthropology from U.C. Berkeley in 1980. Kathy received her doctorate in 1980 in medical anthropology, with a sub-specialization in anthropology of religion, from a joint U.C. Berkeley and U.C. San Francisco program.
Since completing their degrees, they have worked as management consultants in healthcare and as insurance agents. More recently they have worked in medical practice development, sustainability and online education.