WYDE Civic Engagement

Network of Young Decision-makers

Part of Women and Youth in Democracy Initiative

Elena Motta

Congress Member, Guatemala

Active Network Member

From: Guatemala

Active since: 2024

Congress member, elected to the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala to the period 2024-2028. She has a closed curriculum in the degree of political science for the Rafael Landívar University.

She has participated in the scout movement for almost twenty years, and was a student leader of the “Landivarianos” Movement during 2021-2022.

In 2022, she participated in the internal elections of the Movimiento Semilla, Political Party in Guatemala to be a candidate for deputy for Guatemala City, where she obtained a space on the official list, and in 2023, after the general elections on June 25, she was elected as a congress member for the Guatemala City for the 2024-2028 legislative period, becoming the youngest woman democratically elected as a representative in the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala, at 22 years of age.

On 2024 she received from One Young Would the Award of “Young Politician of the Year”.

Elena Motta Related Activities

From 06/03/2024 to 06/05/2024

WYDE Network of Young Decision-makers activities in Berlin

Our young leaders met in the German capital and shared our project with the local authorities and politicians