Today we’d like to introduce you to Brenda Gutierrez.
Hi Brenda, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I started working in the nonprofit area in mid-2020. After all the injustice that was coming too light, I knew that there was a lot of work to be done in our community/ state. I now work for a well-known nonprofit Galeo as a Community Organizer for Clayton and Whitfield County.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
It has not been a smooth road coming across many obstacles in these two different counties from learning about voter rights, new voter laws being passed to collaborating with other organizations to do the work in our community.
It has been a smooth road in the sense that both teams have grown and have been successful doing work in both counties. I just don’t want it to seem like new voter laws have made it possible for us to be successful in our designated areas.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am a Community Organizer for Galeo for the counties of Clayton and Whitfield. I have teams of canvassers in both counties who go out to events and canvass door-to-door daily. I am most proud of being able to help the Galeo leadership team to organize both of these counties, as I reside in Clayton and grew up near Whitfield county and take much pride of my team up there because without them we would not have been able to bring spotlight to that county.
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- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bre138/
