GM Consulting Group (GMCG) is a Latina-owned, community engagement firm. We provide community groups, non-profit organizations, foundations, and governmental entities with skilled and strategic services in the areas of: project management; facilitation; outreach strategies; research; and event management and planning.
Our mission is to connect, empower, and heal systematically excluded communities to create a healthier, sustainable, equitable and inclusive world by honoring each client's mission through strategic community engagement efforts.
ABOUT US
ABOUT OUR FOUNDER
GM Consulting Group, LLC (GMCG) is a community engagement firm started by Founder Giuliana Martinez to bridge the gap in accessibility to strategic services for underrepresented communities to flourish.
Having had a range of experiences in different areas of community servitude, from the grassroots to both the nonprofit and public sectors, Giuliana brings her diverse background to how GMCG conducts its strategic planning for creating infrastructures of care for organizations serving those communities. GMCG makes it its mission to reinforce and strengthen the systems in place at community collaboratives and government agencies that seek to enhance their engagement and relationships with mission-driven community stakeholders.
GMCG emphasizes its values, which are inspired by Giuliana’s experiences as a first-generation Latina immigrant growing up in Marin County who often saw people in her community and of similar backgrounds being denied resources and or lack of culturally relevant services.
Instead of dumping long, jargon-y strategic plans with zero hand in implementation, GMCG makes sure to walk its clients through whatever programs and outreach strategies they need to achieve their objectives for full and complete understanding. In centering its approach around transparency, intention, maintaining relationships, and community, GMCG successfully connects stakeholders with the appropriate change-makers and commits to managing the programmatic efforts, events, communication, and resources that bring successful results to better the community.
Giuliana has spent over a decade around the San Francisco Bay Area working to motivate, educate and empower such underserved and disenfranchised communities. Her specialties in project management, facilitation, and event management and planning drive the leadership of GMCG and its commitment to success.
In her spare time, Giuliana enjoys traveling, spending time with family and friends, and volunteering her time on grassroots efforts.
OUR DREAM TEAM
Destiny Arroyo
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Assistant Project Manager
Destiny Arroyo is dedicated to building lasting relationships within the community, fulfilling clear and concise communications and to staying connected within her Latina/o roots.
Originally a So-Cal native, Destiny moved to the Bay Area when she started attending San Francisco State University in 2014. Destiny became involved with the Latino community when she began her internship with El Tecolote in 2017 and continued volunteering at Accion Latina and Clinica Martin Baro in SF's Mission District. She graduated in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in Journalism with a minor in Latina/o studies.
Destiny decided to utilize her time in quarantine going back to school where she completed her graduate certificate in Communication Management with an emphasis on Public Relations at the University of Denver. It was at this time that Destiny became increasingly interested in project management. In addition, Destiny completed her Public Relations/Communications internship for Orange County’s County Executive Office that same year. Destiny was recently working with San Mateo County as a case manager for the COVID-19 Relief Project to provide assistance to members of the community that were experiencing hardships at the time.
Crystal Madriles
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Assistant Project Manager
Crystal Madriles (she/her/hers) is a first-generation Chicana. Her life has been filled with the desire to enact change and human understanding. Her professional interests and past successes have revolved around spirituality, the incorporation of cultural identity practices, and working in community settings while providing human empathy. She is a San Diego native who made her way to the Bay Area and worked as a Research Assistant with the Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality at San
Francisco State University, and Family Consultant for a non-profit amongst other roles. After five years in the Bay Area she relocated to New York City where she successfully obtained her Master of Arts degree in Psychology from Columbia University.
Crystal has a passion for Latinx communities, all things intersectional, as well as sexual and gender minority services. Her specialties include: project management support, non-profit experience, and research. She now lives in So-Cal where she enjoys bike rides, Zumba, being in the sun, cuddling with her cat, and watching supernatural shows that are actually not that scary.
Jeanette Alanis
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Event Coordinator
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Jeanette Alanis (she/her/they/them) is second and fourth generation Mexican American with roots from Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico and El Paso/ Juárez. They received their Bachelor of Arts at San Francisco State University in Art History and Latina/o studies.
They had interned with Galería de la Raza and from there moved to collaborating artist with Mi Casita Press. Right before COVID curated era hit they curated a group show called Reflections on Exile at Roots Division. Currently, they are looking to hone their skills from a curator aspect and artist collaborator into project managing. Lastly, they lead and teach block printing and even create their own block print works to heal their self. In terms of their interests in art, it is based on abstract forms and use of words, in order to deconstruct, recontextualize and reclaim history.
Jenny Morales
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Promotora Consultant
Jenny Morales is GMCG’s lead promotora working on the Ending the Epidemics project with our cohort of promotoras. She is an Educator and Wellness Contractor, a licensed Natural Health and Emotional Counselor and specializes in serving recently-arrived immigrant communities.
Jenny has worked with various nonprofit organizations including the San Mateo County Council, On Lok and Good Samaritan FRC, among others. Jenny is a lover of physical activity through dance and maintaining a healthy heart and enjoys participating in group meetings and community events.
Antonio Aguilar-Karayianni
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Ending the Epidemic (ETE) Consultant
Originally from Guatemala, Antonio has worked with many social services, public health and behavioral research programs in San Francisco and the larger Bay Area for over 30 years. With the advent of the AIDS pandemic, when he was barely 17, Antonio became a founding member of various emerging LGBTQ+ and youth advocacy groups. He started his community work as a volunteer, but quickly moved on to serve as bilingual outreach/recruiter, community organizer, client advocate, and service provider to various disenfranchised groups, including deaf & hard of hearing adults, recent immigrants, LGBTQ+, and HIV-positive individuals, among others. In recent years, as an employee, consultant, interpreter/translator, and/or volunteer, he has worked with various non-profit agencies, local universities, and community-based groups. Antonio completed a Master’s in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Expressive Arts Therapy, at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
Antonio’s zest for life includes his joy of volunteering, mentoring/teaching/training, photography, collage-making, caring for his collection of indoor plants, and traveling.
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