The consultant
Resumen
Our mission for you:
Our History
EDUCATION
Instituto Nacional de Educación Diversificada | Nebaj, Quiché, Guatemala | 2009-2010
High School with Honors and Specialization in Graphic Design
Honors: Distinguished Student Award (2009-2010)
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Business Administration Course, UDEMY online | 2022
Language Course: Ixil variant of Nebaj, Chajul, and Cotzal | Colectivo TIICHAJIL-Guatemala|2022
Interpreter Training: International Mayan League | Centreville, VA | 2019
Graphic Design Course: Tuulpix Photography Studio | Nebaj, Quiché, Guatemala | 2010
Youth Leadership Training: Asociación Integral Juvenil Q'anil | Nebaj, Quiché, Guatemala |2007
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
IMMIGRANT WORKER PROJECT (IWP) IMMIGRANT WORKER PROJECT
Community Organizer
Canton, Ohio
March 2023-Present
- Create educational campaigns about language and human rights
- Build community leadership by empowering others to lead
- Create resources such as flyers, videos and audios
Community Organizer and Ixil-Spanish Interpreter
International Mayan League, Washington, D.C.
August 2021-August 2023
- Managed programs for the indigenous community
- Developed and trained the team of Mayan Promoters in Virginia and Ohio
- Generated strategies for various indigenous communities to have access to resources and information during the pandemic and for other community needs.
MINNESOTA JUDICIAL
Ixil interpreter-Spanish
October 2021-Present
- Consecutive interpretation from Ixil to Spanish and Spanish to Ixil, virtually over Zoom and IRMA.
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
Ixil interpreter-Spanish
September 2021-Present
- Consecutive interpretation from Ixil to Spanish and Spanish to Ixil, virtually on the Zoom, Webex application and Telephone.
HUNTER MILL DELI
Cook
January 2020-2021, Centreville, VA
- Attend to customers, receive orders, and prepare food in a timely and professional manner.
SELF-EMPLOYED
Gardner/Construction Worker
January-December, 2019, Centreville, VA
TASTE GRILL Dishwasher
January-December, 2018, Boone, NC
GLORIA DE DIOS CHURCH
General Coordinator
January-2011-April 2017, Nebaj, Quiché, Guatemala
- Coordinated donations and church construction projects, organized events and social welfare projects.
Our History
Our mission for you:
Our History
Tomás Gerónimo is Maya Ixil and was born several years before the signing of the Peace Accords in Guatemala. He was raised by his maternal Grandmother who was also one of his strongest mentors. His Grandmother as a survivor of the internal armed conflict, human rights defender, and current Leader of the Ixil Ancestral Council, provided him with some of his earliest teachings. At the age of 13 he began to defend his people, their lands, territories, human rights, and rights of Mother Earth. In the United States he has been a community organizer and also provides Indigenous language interpretation.
Tomas Geronimo, fought for licenses and systems change in Virginia, was an organizer, interpreter and community leader in Virginia for 5 years, currently an interpreter, community leader in Ohio
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
CENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM
2018-2021
Vice-President Board- Centreville, VA
- Represent the Ixil community within the general meeting of the organization
Respond to the needs of the immigrant community in Centreville, organize events, interpret Spanish to Ixil and Ixil to Spanish, and attend the organization’s internal and external events.
MAYA INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
October 2018-August 2023
Youth Leader Washington D.C.
- Educate members of the Ixil immigrant community, interpret Spanish to Ixil and Ixil to Spanish, and defend the rights of indigenous community members.
COUNCIL OF IXIL INTERPRETERS
Council Leader
October 2019- July 2021, Centreville, VA
- Organize a team of Ixil interpreters and lead work on the creation of an Ixil glossary.
LANGUAGES AND ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Languages: Ixil Maya (Native), Spanish (Native), English (Intermediate level)
Software: Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)Adobe Photoshop, Google Drive, Canva, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Social media for outreach.
Our mission for you:
Our mission for you:
Our mission for you:
To provide you with the best knowledge, strategies, interpretation and digital outreach and experiences from a Mayan cultural reality and perspective.
Create educational campaigns on indigenous language and human rights.
Develop community leadership by empowering others to lead.
Create resources such as flyers, videos and audios in Ixil, K'iche', Mam and for indigenous communities.
Create managed programs for the indigenous community.
Generate strategies so that various indigenous communities have access to resources from your organization
Consecutive interpretation from Ixil to Spanish and from Spanish to Ixil, virtually