Megan Hill, senior director, Rare Pride, is just back from Mexico and reports on meeting Rare’s latest class of campaign managers.

Just back from a very quick trip to Mexico, where I attended the last few days of our fifth Latin America cohort’s initial training phase at the University of Guadalajara’s South Coast Campus in Autlan, Jalisco, Mexico. It’s been a long travel-filled year (I haven’t ever counted it up, but I’m sure near 60% of my time was spent on the road this year), and I was very eager to get back home and start enjoying the holidays. Apparently, though, I saved the best for last, since I got the best Christmas present ever the last night of the trip. 

This cohort of seven women from Mexico, Honduras, Panama, and Paraguay decided to call themselves “The Gaias,” or, the Environmental Goddesses (particularly fitting, since our newest cohort of English-speaking trainees is made up of seven men who call themselves the Rare Warriors!).

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