Gloria Araceli Salanic Cornejo

Gloria Araceli Salanic Cornejo is a Maya-K’iché woman who works as a Volunteer Community Facilitator for Asociación Amigas, where she provides trainings on family planning, prevention of violence against women, personal relationships, and HIV/STIs in the rural villages surrounding Quetzaltenango. She recently obtained her teaching degree and began working as a Physical Education teacher. Gloria is the secretary of her Catholic youth group, where she provides talks on communication and attitudes about sexuality. She is an extroverted, visionary and extremely committed young woman who will turn 18 this year. Gloria’s long term plans are to study radiology at the university and, with her mother, open a clinic and pharmacy in her home town.