Aleidy Jersualen de Paz Locón

Aleidy is originally from the Department of Quetzaltenango and was selected as a GOJoven Fellow when she was 17 years old. She is a graduate of John Harvard College and is currently a clerical secretary. She also graduated from ACCES, a program of the Embassy of the United States. She has experience as a councilor in the Municipal Council for Children and Adolescents, a teacher in the Teaching For You program (which provides free English classes), and a promoter at the Juvenile Reproductive Health Observatory (OSAR). Additionally, she is a member of the biministerial Quetzaltenango table. Her professional goal is, in the defense of sexual and reproductive health and rights, to be a journalist. Through this career, she hopes to enhance the visibility of the realities and the needs of Guatemalan girls in understanding the importance of Integral Education in Sexuality.

Posted in Guatemala 2017.