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Alejandra Patricia Sales Cardenas, 29 when selected as a Summit Fellow, works for the government’s program dealing with at-risk youth. Alejandra is a confident and well-spoken woman with a commitment to improve the status of young people in Mexico. In her current role within the Department of the Family, she directs a residential center for at-risk youth in Chetumal, where she acts as a counselor and educator for young people on topics of sexual and reproductive health, gender, and sexual violence. In addition to her work as a counselor and trainer during the past several years, she is studying for a degree in psychotherapy and eventually would like to study sexuality at the Mexican Institute of Sexology.
DIF/ PAMAP Programa de Atención a Menores y Adolescentes en Riesgo
Ariadna Lorena Coello Martinez
Ariadna Lorena Coello Martinez es de México DF originalmente, pero lleva tres años viviendo en Cancún. Tiene 21 años y estudia psicología.
Durante el último año y medio Lorena ha trabajado con el Centro Humanista Integralde la Sexualidad para Adolescentes y Jóvenes (CHISPAS) en Cancún, donde ha aprendido sobre la salud sexual y reproductiva, apoyo político y monitoreo y evaluación, y también comunicación básica para que pueda ayudar a la organización con pláticas en la radio sobre temas como igualdad de géneros, métodos de contracepción y derechos sexuales.
Ha trabajado con SEEDSA en su promoción del preservativo femenino y ha participado en el desarrollo de un propuesto (que luego fue fundado por Summit) para desarrollar un centro de jóvenes en Cancún. Ahora que el centro de jóvenes ha recibido financiación, Lorena va a dar pláticas y formaciones sobre derechos de salud sexual y reproductiva a los jóvenes que visitan el centro y al personal que trabaja en el centro.
Recibió un certificado de formación del gobierno en el tema de violencia, está diseñando un curso de formación sobre la prevención de abuso sexual, especialmente para los niños y adolescentes. Lorena dice que GOJoven le ha ayudado en su carrera profesional y le ha ayudado a ser una colega y empleada más efectiva.
Mayra Garcia
Mayra Garcia was 26 years old when she became a Summit Fellow. She is a native of Quintana Roo and currently coordinates the recruitment and hiring of personnel at Xel-Ha, an eco-tourist water park near Tulum with over 500 employees. She began working at Xel-Ha four years ago as the supervisor of environmental education and was quickly promoted to a management position due to her initiative, interpersonal skills and other leadership qualities. She is a certified trainer within Xel-Ha, acting as the primary instructor of quality assurance and health services, and has been invited to be a trainer in the park’s new internal Drug Prevention Program. An active member of the park’s Gender Equity Committee, she often serves as a counselor to the young staff on personal issues, including sexual and reproductive health. Mayra is currently studying Hotel Management and hopes to someday be a professor in the area of humanities.
Hotel Barcelo Premium Beach Resort
Aide Ortiz
Aide Ortiz became a Summit Fellow at age 26. She is a social worker who has lived in Quintana Roo for 15 years. She has acted as a counselor for young people and their parents in Cancun through a municipal court-run service program for youth offenders. Aide oversaw the family planning and reproductive health program of the Mexican Institute for Social Security in peri-urban areas of Playa del Carmen for a few years prior to being based out of Cancun. In this capacity, she has supervised educators who make home visits to provide counseling and contraception to youth and families. Aide is committed to social change, and passionate about working to improve the sexual and reproductive health of the youth and women of Quintana Roo, Mexico. She received the Summit Educational Scholarship in 2007 and is now in the middle of completing her Master’s Degree in Psycology and Family Therapy at the Universidad del Mayab in Yucatán.
Marco Toh
Marco Toh became a Fellow at the age of 25. A native of Cozumel, he had spent a year coordinating the department of training for the Cozumel Human Rights Commission. In this position he conducted outreach and education in human rights, including sexual and reproductive rights, in the schools and communities of Cozumel. He has always shown a strong passion for sexuality and reproductive health, sharing his particular interest in looking at issues of sexual diversity and discrimination. He participated in GoJoven’s Training of Trainers program and has since become an accomplished trainer for the program as well as in his own work. He has a law degree and is self-taught in English. Marco has been promoted to the position of Training Coordinator, for the northern part of the state of Quintana Roo.
Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Estado de Q.R.
Claudia Rosado Huerta Maestra
Bachilleres II
Hector Cima
Hector Cima was selected as a Fellow at age 29 while working in Felipe Carillo Puerto community health worker for Amigos de Sian Ka’an, the most important environmental NGO in Quintana Roo. With his Mayan language skills, trusted position in the community, and work at an environmental NGO, he has the ability to communicate important information to people who would otherwise not have access to such information. He also has the potential to make the linkages between population and environment issues real and tangible in the communities and organization in which he works. Today Hector is a preschool teacher in San Juan.
Escuela Vicente Guerrero, Comunidada San Juan.
Adriana Varillas
Adriana Varillas was 28 when selected as a Summit Fellow and was a writer for the La Voz del Caribe newspaper, based in Cancun, with a circulation extending throughout the northern part of Quintana Roo. She specializes in writing about the environment, but also covers gender, human rights, politics, and other issues. She is intelligent, passionate and committed to social justice. Today, Adriana works as a reporter and correspondent for El Universal. She recently completed a Campus Tour with the Sierra Club, talking to students and young people in Ohio in 2007 and is currently editing an essay to be included in an upcoming anthology, The New Population Challenge.
El Universal
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