Jimena Maza was born and rised in La Peninsula de Yucatan Mexico, (for her, the Paradaise 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 at Compañeros en Salud (CES) in la Sierra Madre de Chiapas. Jimena was a site fellow at Compañeros en Salud in Mexico.