Benilda has over 14 years of professional experience working with marginalized communities and implementing development projects. This includes work to promote citizen participation in the right to health and working for women's rights and gender equality as a way to ensure equitable and non-discriminatory citizen participation.
She has a degree in Social Work from the Mariano Gálvez University in Guatemala. In 2020, Benilda was named CEO of CEGSS, and she is the first Indigenous woman elected to that position.

Rosaura Medina has more than 14 years of experience working with indigenous populations, in which together with the communities she has worked on organizational issues, citizen participation and empowerment in public health policies, she has facilitated and coordinated teaching processes – learning in communities, community-based organizations and Councils of Ancestral Authorities emphasizing Human Rights. She has participated in projects on Food Security and Sovereignty and territorial defense. Rosaura has a Bachelor's Degree in Pedagogy and Human Rights from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala.

Lesly Ramirez has more than 20 years of professional experience working with marginalized communities and implementing development projects, in issues of organization and citizen participation, training processes aimed at women, leaders and indigenous peoples, with emphasis on the promotion, defense and judicialization of Rights Humans, linking them to the issue of public policy with emphasis on the field of food and health. Lesly has a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition and has a Master's degree in Food and Nutrition at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala. She has independent studies in poverty and social research from FLACSO. She is currently part of the CEGSS technical team where she advises on issues of citizen participation.

Evaristo Choj Caal is Mayan Q'eqchi', Teacher of Bilingual Intercultural Primary Education, has completed his curriculum in the Bachelor of Legal and Social Sciences, Law and Notaries and Bachelor of Pedagogy and Human Rights, both from the University of San Carlos. from Guatemala. In addition, he has received complementary training on Human Rights. He has work experience in facilitating training processes on issues of Human Rights, Individual and Collective Rights of Native Peoples, Advocacy and citizen participation, local empowerment and community organization.

Carlos has a degree in Business Administration specialized in financial administration and has a master's degree in project formulation and evaluation from the University of San Carlos in Guatemala. He started at CEGSS in 2010 and is currently in charge of the administrative and financial coordination of all the projects that are implemented.

Elder has 25 years of experience in general accounting and supervision of technical execution of project development and financial control. He has collaborated in both private companies and non-profit organizations. He is currently pursuing a degree in Public Accounting and Auditor at the University of San Carlos De Guatemala.

Lucía Cojtín Yaxón, Mayan Kaqchikel, bilingual secretary by profession, has completed her curriculum for the Bachelor's Degree in Social Work at the Universidad Mariano Gálvez, Sololá. Her work experience has been with vulnerable groups in the most marginalized communities, in issues of organization, political participation, economic empowerment and facilitation in training processes on human rights issues. She is currently a tutor in citizenship for health at the CEGSS.

Mariela Botzoc has two years of experience working with communities in territorial resistance, implementing projects on early childhood education issues. She graduated as a Teacher in Intercultural Bilingual Pre-Primary Education. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Legal and Social Sciences as a Lawyer and Notary at the Universidad Regional de Guatemala. She is currently a CEGSS field assistant in Alta Verapaz.

From the academic field, Johanna Barrios has carried out qualitative research, publications on health, psychology and education topics in the magazine publicogt and Civitas magazine, as well as the coordination of a cultural observatory. In field experience, she has worked on issues of citizen organization, training processes aimed at community leaders and young people, mainly; but also with women's groups on issues of leadership, sexual and reproductive rights and local empowerment. The main general topics that she has addressed have been: human rights, political participation, community organization, internal armed conflict, psychosocial support in disaster situations, generation of public policies with emphasis on human development. Regarding the history of Guatemala, she was responsible for promoting the Jean Marie Simon exhibition throughout the Republic. In the academic field, she has taught the national reality course at the Universidad Rafael Landívar in the nursing career. At the university level she has taught courses on health anthropology, health in the cultures and ethnicities of Guatemala, conflict transformation, national reality and thesis review. At the university level she is a speech therapist and has a degree in psychology from the Universidad de San Carlos.

María Láinez Pérez, Mayan Mam woman, is a Bilingual Primary Education Teacher (Mam-Spanish), she also has a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work with an Emphasis in Development Management, at the Rafael Landívar University Huehuetenango Campus. She is a leader of her community. She has experience in community organization issues, training of leaders on issues of Citizen Participation, violence against women, Human Rights, gender equality, among others. She is a social activist on issues of Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She is the promoter of the creation of the Maya Mam Weavers' Council.

Jessica Raymundo Ceto, is PSE in Pedagogy and Social Sciences, has completed her curriculum in the Bachelor's Degree in Education from the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, has complementary training in Public Policies, Human Rights, Women's Rights, People's Rights Indigenous Peoples and Rights of Children and Adolescents and the Human Right to Food, Gender, Organic Agriculture and Production of Bioinputs, Play-Pedagogy, Socio-Emotional Education. Her field work experience has been in issues of Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Food and Nutritional Security, Political Empowerment of Women, Political Advocacy, Citizen Participation, Right to Water, Food Sovereignty. All of her experience has been working with community leaders, pregnant women, children under 5 years of age and adolescents, as well as with women's committees and health committees in the Ixil and Santa Cruz del Quiché Regions. She is currently a Technician in Citizenship for Health in the Department of Quiché by CEGSS.

Marlon Sotz Son is a Kaqchikel thinker, researcher and writer. He belongs to the Kaqchikel people of Chi Xot, San Juan Comalapa. Throughout his career, he has participated in multiple spaces that link him to community work in defense of the rights of indigenous peoples. He studied legal and social sciences at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala. Currently, he is about to obtain the academic degree of the Bachelor's Degree in Legal and Social Sciences, Law and Notaries. He is also pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. He has spent 8 years in spaces where he has accumulated valuable experience and wisdom in the defense and political advocacy for the fulfillment of the rights of indigenous peoples, as a trainer, poet, researcher, legal advisor and human rights consultant in organizations that provide support to defenders, communities and peoples in the face of serious violations of their rights. He has been an Advisory Member of the Chi Xot Indigenous Municipality for about 3 years, ancestral authority of his hometown, San Juan Comalapa. Spaces from where he promotes political advocacy processes for good living.

K'iche' Mayan woman, professional in Social Work with an Emphasis in Development Management. With high social commitment. Educator and political analyst. With knowledge related to Human Rights and its legal framework, gender justice, prevention of different types of violence against children and adolescents and women, recreational-participatory methodologies, organization and training of community structures and multidisciplinary groups, sociopolitical and economic empowerment of women and young people ; mastery of project cycle management and social research.

Mirza Colindres is a Social Communicator, Manager for the development of childhood and adolescence and volunteer. She has participated in various development projects and consultancies with a focus on Human Rights. She currently holds the position of Social Communicator at the CEGSS.