Giovanis Montero joined the ADVANCE Team as Program Assistant in December 2014. She comes to ADVANCE with over ten years of experience providing complex administrative support to executive and senior-level managers in both the public and private sector. Her community outreach efforts included conducting financial literacy presentations to youth and adults in English and Spanish.

In her capacity as ADVANCE Program Assistant, she will be scheduling all ADVANCE meetings and taking meeting minutes, scheduling Launch committee meetings, arranging travel logistics and travel expense report reconciliation, and providing general administrative and event support.

Giovanis served the Northern Nevada community as a board member for the Chamber of Commerce and several non-profit agencies (2007-2013). She earned an AA in Social Sciences from Hartnell College in California.