About Us

Firefly jewelry is designed by Juan Carlos Chavajay Vasquez, in conjunction with Edward Rudnicki, the owner of Firefly, and with help from Juan Carlos's design assistants. Juan Carlos is the Director of the Southwestern Reps for Firefly. He is also the Director of New Resources; being on the lookout for new materials and techniques to integrate into the Firefly line.

Our Director of Operations in Guatemala is Eduardo Chavajay, who is responsible for overseeing the management of all Firefly artisans, administrative employees and supervisors in Guatemala. Eduardo Chavajay also controls the management of all Firefly jewelry production in Guatemala, and supervises inventory of materials purchased for the workshop.

Firefly provides employment and training in comfortable working conditions and fair wages to the indigenous people of Santiago Atitlan in Guatemala. The workshop employs over 80 skilled artisans both men and women. The indigenous people of the village are very skilled in their traditional arts; the women weave on the back strap loom and are skilled in embroidery the men weave on foot looms and are skilled in making fishing nets. We have taken many of the traditional skills and transformed them into jewelry making skills. The workshop is spacious and filled with skylights and windows, every artisan has their own worktable and light. It is built around a plant and flower filled courtyard with the ever-vigilant terriers Ricky and Rocky around to greet the workers and roam the gardens.