Glenda is a young women of the K’iche’ Maya nation, born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. She possesses a profound civic vocation and extensive technical, methodological, and political skills to accompany and advise social organizations in projects focused on territorial defense, social justice, gender equity, indigenous peoples, youth, and human rights.

Glenda holds a holds a technical degree in Rural Social Work and a bachelor´s degree in Social Work. She also earned a master´s degree in Project and Evaluation and a postgraduate in Scientific Research. Glenda gained her professional experience at Trócaire, an Irish Catholic development agency in Guatemala, as well as in various organizations and social movements.

She is a graduate of the political training program “Agents of Change”, offered by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Foundation. She participated in the research internship program “Territorial Defense” for the development of USAID´s introductory political training diploma. Additionally, she has taken part in youth-led political dialogues facilitated by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Her academic background includes specialized training and diplomas in indigenous history, racism and discrimination, social research, political training, state analysis, Guatemala´s colonial history, youth political education and feminism, environmental conservation for territorial development, human trafficking , human rights violations, and gender-based violence. Glenda has participated in training and completed courses on the history of indigenous peoples, racism, discrimination, social research, political training, analysis of racist states and colonization in Guatemala, political training for youth and feminists, environmental conservation for territorial development, human trafficking and human rights violations, and gender-based violence.

She has collaborated with the research and communication departments at the Liga Maya de Guatemala and has been a speaker at national and international forums, including FLACSO Mexico, the Chilean Network for Social Work and Systematization, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the National University of Chimborazo in Ecuador.

Glenda won first place in public speaking at the Centro Universitario de Occidente of the San Carlos University of Guatemala, and by election she has held positions of cultural representation at both municipal and national levels.