Chellis Jara

Board Member

Experience

SERVICE

North and South America, Israel

LOCATION

Orange County, CA

CONTACT

info@dohla.org

Biography

Chellis Jara is an advocate, counselor, mentor, coach, and speaker. Her passion is to help others through empowerment workshops to discover their original purpose design so that they reach their maximum potential.

From an early age, she discovered her love for serving the community. At fourteen, she served in the indigene community of the Sierra de Chihuahua, Mexico, capturing her passion for service. She has more than 17 years of experience as an advocate of neurotypical and developmentally disabled victims of crime. She is of Mexican/Japanese descent and was raised in Orange County, California.

She is passionate about her work and dedicated to women’s empowerment, young people, and children. She has participated in various international events, such as speaking against human trafficking at the Congress and Judicial Office of Lima, Peru, as well as in several states of the Mexican Republic. She recently served communities in the Dominican Republic and assisted Holocaust survivors in Israel. She is a champion of the community, aiming to help any individual searching to break the cycle of violence.