Each Crooked Trails program includes a Crooked Trails guide and local community guides.  You can find individual bios for each guide here.

Crooked Trails guides
Each travel program is led by an English-speaking Crooked Trails guide who will meet you at the destination country airport and will be with you throughout your travel program.
This guide serves as liaison between you and your local community guides and facilitates your immersion into the culture.  All Crooked Trails guides are well trained in ecology, culturally sensitive travel, and emergency wilderness medicine.  They are knowledgeable about the destination country and are just plain fun and supportive.

Local guides
In all the countries we visit, we work with local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which provide local community guides and translators for our homestay programs.
The local guides are native to the regions we visit and are especially knowledgeable, hospitable, and interesting.  They will help you understand what you are witnessing and the projects you are working on and quickly become everyone’s favorite person.