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.

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, maya kaqchikel, secretaria bilingüe de profesión, Licenciada en Trabajo Social en la Universidad Mariano Gálvez, Sololá. Su experiencia laboral ha sido con  grupos en vulnerabilidad en las comunidades más marginadas, en temas de organización, participación política, empoderamiento económico y facilitación en procesos formativos en tema de derechos humanos. Actualmente es tutora en ciudadanía por la salud en el 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.

Nina López, es Trabajadora Social, cuenta con una sólida trayectoria en el ámbito social, destacándose por su trabajo con diversos grupos en situación de vulnerabilidad, entre ellos mujeres, jóvenes y niñez en primera infancia. A lo largo de su experiencia profesional, ha participado en el diseño e implementación de proyectos orientados a responder a problemáticas emergentes en el campo social.

Su práctica le ha permitido consolidar conocimientos y enfoques transversales en Derechos Humanos, Empoderamiento de la Mujer, Gestión de Riesgos y Desarrollo Infantil Temprano. Mediante su intervención profesional, ha promovido procesos de cambio, desarrollo, cohesión social y fortalecimiento comunitario, reafirmando su compromiso ético y profesional como Trabajadora Social.

Se caracteriza por su convicción en la práctica responsable y transformadora del Trabajo Social, contribuyendo activamente al bienestar y empoderamiento de las personas y comunidades con las que colabora.

Patricia Pérez Morales es mujer maya Tz’utujil, originaria de San Juan La Laguna, departamento de Sololá, Guatemala. Cuenta con más de 16 años de experiencia fortaleciendo procesos organizativos y tejiendo relaciones en comunidades del departamento de Sololá, promoviendo la participación ciudadana, el diálogo y el desarrollo comunitario.

Se graduó como Perito Contador, formación que le ha permitido desarrollar habilidades en administración y gestión financiera. Asimismo, es Licenciada en Trabajo Social con énfasis en Desarrollo Comunitario por la Universidad Panamericana, sede Sololá, donde ha consolidado conocimientos orientados a contribuir al bienestar y crecimiento integral de las comunidades.

Su compromiso profesional está enfocado en el servicio, el liderazgo comunitario y la promoción de los derechos y la participación de los pueblos indígenas, especialmente del pueblo maya, aportando desde un enfoque de identidad, equidad y justicia social.

Mardoqueo Crispín Bulux Tzoc es profesional maya hablante del idioma k’iche’, con amplia experiencia en trabajo de campo en procesos de desarrollo comunitario. Su trayectoria se ha orientado a fortalecer la construcción de un tejido social más justo, equitativo y con mayores oportunidades de desarrollo, especialmente en comunidades en situación de vulnerabilidad en la región occidente del país.

Es egresado de la Escuela Normal Regional de Occidente, Santa Lucía Utatlán, Sololá, donde obtuvo el título de Maestro de Educación Primaria Bilingüe Intercultural (maya-español). A nivel universitario, cuenta con la Licenciatura en Psicología General por la Universidad Rafael Landívar, campus Quetzaltenango. Actualmente posee cierre de pensum de la Maestría en Neuroeducación y Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación por el Centro Universitario de Occidente (CUNOC-USAC).

Su perfil integra formación pedagógica, psicológica y comunitaria, aportando una visión intercultural y humanista orientada al desarrollo integral de las personas y comunidades.

Jorge Coc es miembro de la comunidad maya Q’eqchi’ y cuenta con más de catorce años de experiencia en el trabajo con personas y comunidades en situación de vulnerabilidad. A lo largo de su trayectoria profesional, ha liderado y ejecutado diversos proyectos de desarrollo comunitario orientados al empoderamiento de personas que enfrentan mayores riesgos dentro de su entorno social.

Es Licenciado en Trabajo Social con énfasis en Gerencia del Desarrollo, título otorgado por la Universidad Rafael Landívar, campus de la Verapaz. Su experiencia profesional se ha caracterizado por la implementación de iniciativas que promueven la participación ciudadana, el fortalecimiento de capacidades locales y el empoderamiento individual y colectivo.

Su labor ha contribuido significativamente a la construcción de comunidades más justas, participativas y resilientes, con un enfoque centrado en el desarrollo humano y la equidad social.