Carolina Reyes is the Deputy Coordinator of the Women’s Movement of the Colonia Lopez Arellano. She is a feminist and human rights defender, with 15 years of experience working with women and girls and adolescents in the municipality of Choloma, Cortes. She is has participated in the program Mujeres Adelante: Central American and Caribbean Women’s Delegation to End Gender-Based Violence.
Anabel Hernandez Muñoz
Anabel Hernandez Muñoz is the Coordinator of the Women’s Solidarity Commission of Honduras, where she advocates for the welfare of women with municipal authorities in Copan. She works with women who have experienced domestic violence, provides legal support, psychological care and promotes entrepreneurship. Anabel has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.
Virginia Cum Chevén
Virginia is Vice-President of the Network of Indigenous Women “Seeding the Future”. She is an activist who works to strengthen and empower indigenous young women so that by knowing their rights they can escape violence, be self-sufficient and live a healthy life. She has worked hard in establishing a dialogue with local and departmental authorities to enforce the rights of … Read More
Leiddy Amabilia de León Benavente
Leiddy is a field expert with New Earth (Tierra Nueva). She works with adolescents and young people at the municipal level, facilitating workshops on sexual and reproductive health and training community health promoters on Sexual and Reproductive Health. She is also an active volunteer at Smile Factory, changing the world one smile at a time. She has a degree in … Read More
Yenifer Valey Gómez
Yenifer is the administrator of Voices and Hands for the Right to Health, part of the New Hope Foundation in Rabinal, Baja Verapaz. Her work in Voices and Hands ensures access to education for dozens of indigenous youth. She also strengthens youth’s advocacy capacities and ensures the participation of youth in decision-making spaces at the Municipal level. She studies the … Read More
Gabriel Reyes Silva
Gabriel is the Advocacy Project Officer at Pro-Family Association (APROFAM), the IPPF affiliate in Guatemala where he monitors Guatemala’s commitments to the 2030 Agenda, especially concerning initiatives for girls and adolescents. He is an advocate of the rights of children and adolescents in his country worked on the passage of Decree 8-2015 which prohibits marriage before the age of 18. … Read More
Elsa Oralia Ochoa
Elsa is the Regional Coordinator of the project Prevention and Gender Based Violence Reduction of the Regional Sexual Health Observatory. Her job is to empower girls 7-17 years old in four different departments on leadership and well-being. She documents cases of very young adolescents who become pregnant as victims of rape, and guides their reporting and follow up. Elsa is … Read More
Anelis Rosalba Vásquez Castillo
Anelis Rosalba Vásquez Castillo is a town councilwoman in the Municipality of San Antonio Sacatepequez in San Marcos, Guatemala. She has been committed to working for the comprehensive development of girls and women since the age of fourteen. She has volunteered for 11 years in organizations that promote youth participation and advocates for youth involvement in decision-making spaces. Anelis has … Read More
What’s Next in the Fight to End Child Marriage in Guatemala?
Guatemala has taken a huge step forward for girls, officially outlawing child marriage following years of advocacy by activists and girl leaders. New legislation closes a major loophole in the law, a major victory for girls in a country that has one of the highest rates of child marriage in Latin America. According to Unicef, 30 percent of girls are … Read More
Kaitlyn Custer
United States Kaitlyn is a passionate advocate for sexual health and reproductive justice. Several years ago, she founded a now-mandatory workshop series for incoming undergraduates to learn about consent, bystander intervention, and rape culture. She currently teaches comprehensive sexual education to high schoolers, including recently immigrated Latinx students, and hopes to further develop her health equity lens over the coming … Read More
