Kristen Petros de Guex

Education: BA in Anthropology and Spanish from the University of Virginia; MA in Latin American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin

Recent Projects include: ACLU of Puerto Rico

Personal Interests: Latin music and dance, photography, organic urban gardening, native landscaping, the Blue Ridge Mountains and long hikes with her rescue Golden, Maple

Kristen Petros de Guex is a trilingual grants management and program strategy consultant (English, Spanish, Portuguese) based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has spent nearly two decades working alongside grassroots organizations, foundations and philanthropic partners across Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the United States, grounded in a deep commitment to trust-based philanthropy and community-led change.

Her path into this work began during four years with the Peace Corps in rural Guatemala and Honduras, where she worked with Maya K'iche' and Lenca communities on public health and sustainable community development. At the Inter-American Foundation, she spent two years administering grants supporting Indigenous-, women- and youth-led organizations across Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador and Honduras, advancing civic engagement, gender justice, social inclusion and climate resilience from the ground up. She also served as Acting Foundation Representative for Guatemala, co-leading a portfolio of community-led grants across the country. Prior to joining PEG, Kristen coordinated federally funded applied global health research at the University of Virginia School of Medicine focused on HIV, tuberculosis and health equity for Black, Brown and LGBTQI+ communities across Tanzania, Nicaragua and Virginia.

Kristen holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in Anthropology and Spanish from the University of Virginia. She chairs the Huehuetenango Committee of the Charlottesville Sister Cities Commission and serves on the board of the GuateMaya Alliance.