NLA Spotlight: Guillermo Quinteros
Community work is in Guillermo Quinteros’s DNA.
“I already grew up in a family that was politicized in the 60s in South America. My dad is from Peru, and my mom is from Puerto Rico. I grew up in Peru, and we had to leave because of political reasons—there was a military coup, so we had to leave,” he recounts.
NLA Spotlight: Shruti Garg
Shruti Garg’s passions and purpose were tied to philanthropy before she even knew it: “My first internship was at a local foundation supporting immigrant communities here in LA. I didn’t know what philanthropy was, and I didn’t understand that the work that I enjoyed doing was through philanthropy.”
NLA Spotlight: Maya Thornell-Sandifor
Maya Thornell-Sandifor has been bridging different worlds since she was a child. “I’m a preacher’s kid, so my dad was very politically active in the faith community since I was a little girl. He would take me on marches and to political organizing events, and it was bred into me that change isn’t fixed. You have to participate in the system if you want things to be different.”