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Anna Maria Chávez was born in 1968 and is 58 years old now.
Birthday: 1968
How Old - Age: 58
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Anna Maria Chávez - Biography
Anna Maria Chavez has been selected as Chief Executive Officer of Girl Scouts of the USA. She is a licensed attorney and practiced law in Washington, D.C., and a Girl Scout alumna, and lifetime member.Anna Maria Chavez is of Mexican-American heritage, she grew up in Eloy, Arizona. When Anna Maria Chavez was a 10 years-old she joined a Girl Scout troop, although it was a small group of a dozen or so girls, Chavez recalls, "It was the first opportunity I had to travel with a group of girls without my family. It created a spark in me to explore." She is married to Robert, a financial Industry executive, and they have a son, Michael. Chavez attended Yale University on a full scholarship; she earned a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in American History. Soon after she clerked for an Arizona attorney and then attended the University of Arizona Law School, and holds a Jurist Doctorate from the University of Arizona College of Law. Chavez served as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Administrator at the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) in Washington, D.C. She also served as chief of staff for SBA’s Office of Government Contracting and Minority Enterprise Development.During the Clinton Administration Chavez served as Senior Policy Advisor to United States Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater.She returned to Arizona and served as in-house counsel and Assistant Director for the Division of Aging & Community Services (DACS) at the Arizona Department of Economic Security.From 2003 to 2007, under former Arizona’s Governor, and current U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Chavez served as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Deputy Chief of Staff for Urban Relations and Community Development, as Deputy Chief of Staff Chavez oversaw military and veteran affairs, faith-based and community initiatives, human services, and child protective services, as well as housing and intergovernmental affairs. In 2009, Anna Maria Chavez became head of Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas. Girl Scouts is actually designed to train young girls to be entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders, and to inculcate a basic sense of financial literacy, there has also been an effort by a number of troops to add technological innovation. For example a new mobile payments technology allows scouts to swipe credit cards during their door-to-door sales.She is an award-winning community leader and motivational speaker. As an executive officer of Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas (GSSWT) she advocated for issues important to girls and relevant to their growth and development.Recently Girl Scouts kicked off their hundredth anniversary year with a new campaign called "To Get Her There." The focus of the campaign is to look for ways Girl Scouts can help remove the obstacles to female leadership across every level in our society.Chavez is determined to contemporize the Girl Scout experience, and to make that experience a source for inspiration for the future adult lives of Girl Scout alumni. Chavez is a recipient of the “Adjutant General’s Medal,” and the “Diversity Champion Leadership” Award presented by the Arizona National Guard. She was also honored with the “Exemplary Leadership” Award by Valle del Sol in 2008 and named “Woman of the Year” at the Latina Excellence Awards in 2007. Chavez received the inaugural “ATHENA Organizational Leadership” Award in 2010 and was inducted into the “San Antonio Women’s Hall of Fame” in March 2011.
