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Staff & Volunteers
Gemma Givens
Founder
Gemma Givens is the founder of Next Generation Guatemala (NGG). Her story has been covered by the Associated Press, Nomada Magazine, Berkeley News, and Emmy Award winning documentary, The Lost Children of Guatemala, by Telemundo. Gemma was a speaker for the forum, Volverte a Ver, Niñez Desaparecida en Guatemala hosted by Grupo Apoyo Mutuo, guest lecturer for the UCLA course, Indigenous Diasporas: Adoption, and presented at the conference, 200 Years of CentralAmerica in the World/200 Jahre Unabhängigkeit Zentralamerikas in Berlin. NGG received an honorable mention in the new ideas for nonprofit organizations category for the 2020 Emprendete Guatemala competition.
Hallie Valentino
Website Designer
Hallie was adopted from Guatemala as a baby. After she met her birth family in 2018, she became eager to be more involved with NGG. She began unlocking what it meant for her to be a Guatemalan-American Adoptee. Hallie's hope for the website and other social media pages is to continue bringing together our community and providing a safe space for her fellow chapínes.
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