Jimena Maza was born and raised in La Peninsula de Yucatan Mexico, (for her, the Paradise on earth), in a very loving family. She did medical school in La Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan. After she finished medical school, she spent one year working in a rural clinic in a Mayan community close to Chichen Itza. Since then, she has been working as a clinical supervisor, and most recently as Primary Care Director at Compañeros en Salud (CES) in la Sierra Madre de Chiapas, a part of the Partners in Health (PIH) network. Jimena served as the first HEAL-CES site fellow in the inaugural HEAL class (2015-2017).