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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
HONORING THE RETIREMENT OF GADS HILLS CENTER CHEIF EXECUTIVE OFFICER MARICELA GARC?A
WHEREAS, Maricela Garc?a, Chief Executive Officer of Gads Hill Center will be retiring at the end of August, 2024 after 12 years of exceptional leadership and transformative impact for the Chicago non-profit organization; and
WHEREAS, Maricela Garc?a came to the U.S. in the early 1980s as a result of the civil war in her country of origin, Guatemala; and
WHEREAS, Maricela Garc?a arrived in the U.S. and founded Casa Guatemala to assist newly arriving refugees; and
WHEREAS, Maricela Garc?a later co-founded Women for Guatemala, an organization dedicated to building solidarity among women in the U.S. with women's organizations in Guatemala fighting to uphold human rights; and
WHEREAS, Maricela Garc?a holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Administration from Northeastern University and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago; and
WHEREAS, Maricela Garc?a was a Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government policy fellow and completed leadership programs at Northwestern University and the Kellogg School of Management, and Harvard Business School; and
WHEREAS, Maricela Garc?a served on various boards and councils including the National Immigration Forum, the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Northwestern University Human Rights Center, the Chicago Community Renewal Society, Illinois Partners for Human Services, and Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago; and
WHEREAS, Maricela Garc?a was the former Executive Director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) and founding Executive Director of the Latino Policy Forum; and
WHEREAS, before Gads Hill Center, she was the Director of Capacity Building and Juvenile Justice Policy at Unidos US, formerly the National Council of La Raza; and
WHEREAS, Maricela Garc?a has received several fellowships and awards including the Chic...
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