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Jenna 💙 Water4Life

@jenna_macewen

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Water activist & female leadership
guided by the plants + planets 🪐🌱
Founder & ED @water4lifeguatemala💧
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Family! I did a podcast with a dear friend @kelseylowshow 🌸This conversation flowed with so much ease in expressing my story with @water4lifeglobal and my healing path through water. It would be a gift if you got a chance to listen, share AND to tell me what you think! Check out Joyfully You podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcast for episode 208 Healing and Blessing the water with Jenna MacEwen.

So excited to share this in honor of World Water Day! Let’s continue to share conversations around the importance of clean, healthy and blessed UP water 💙 by @jenna_macewen

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5 years ago

Today marks my 3 year anniversary of stepping foot in Guatemala. I couldn’t quite capture all experiences in one spread of photos, but here is a little taste.

I still don’t quite understand this land. It’s beyond anything I have ever felt before. The fire of the volcanos, the depths of the lake, the history of the Mayans, it creates some kind of force within me.

I have grown so much within these years while being so sweetly held by a community of individuals from all around the world. Why travel, when those that are guided here are so unique on their own?

Choosing to live my life with intention though prayer and ceremony has shown me what is beyond the life I was taught. During a time when the world has gone through such “darkness” I have found so much light here in Guatemala. While the shadows are definitely here, these waters mature me.

Gracias a los espíritus por permitirme estar aquí. I will continue to be in service to you and your people as best as I can. For I am internally grateful for what you have given me.

Supér Maltiox. taken in Guatemala by @jenna_macewen

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5 years ago

Craving my next dive trip! Where should I go? by @jenna_macewen

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3 years ago

Cornell 7, what can I say, it’s once again a moment to call in our brothers to protect the feminine. Centuries of abuse boiling to the service. I myself have experienced verbal and sexual abuse starting at the age of 14. I’ve grown up fearful of what my beauty would attract just by simply being me. Years I’ve debated, what do I need to dim down to protect myself. I have distant memory of an ex boyfriend saying “well what do you expect?” as if my external appearance was something to validate the abuse I received.

I do feel there is a war on the masculine that is swinging the pendulum to the other side of women shaming, cancelling men who are really just hurt boys, growing up in a world filled with complex sexual programming.

Yes, women need to continue to step into their boundaries advocating for their safety, while men deeply need to do their work WITH other men. Women cannot be the teachers, men need to take self responsibility and ask the real question: am I a safe man? taken in Cornell University by @jenna_macewen

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2 days ago

Sisterhood, community and holding myself in solitude have been the hands I needed to walk myself back home after a year of the deepest grief I’ve felt in my life. I knew Pluto transiting over my ascendant would be deep medicine, but reading about it doesn’t quite prepare you for the change you will go through on a cellular level. The grief went far beyond what was presently happening, it was deep, ancestral and collective.

Y’all where are our community grief rituals, where we can come together to cry and shed those stagnant, inner waters?!?

In the middle of my grief portal, my mother rocked me like a baby and my father tenderly held me. I never thought I would see myself, 34 years old, collapsed in my parent’s arms. Yet it also felt so pure to be held and witnessed in my emotional rawness. Multiple people have since shared with me, “Jenna, you look and feel different”, laughing I said well, that’s what happens when you shed the deepest waves within. I do feel incredibly stronger, taller and bolder. It has given me the courage to be exactly who I am, protecting my inner girl that deserves the ultimate best.

It’s these moments when you are on your knees, you have no other choice to connect with your internal strength and a higher power to find your feet again. And these moments I’m eternally grateful for the unfolding.

These pictures represent a moment of breath out with my sisters. We laughed, played and celebrated our beauty as we supported the clothing line and essence of @risingtogether_community. I wouldn’t change anything that has transpired this year for me, it only showed me what happens when you surrender deep enough to let go.

📸: @wildwomanmedia
👗: @risingtogether_community
🎵: @chrysteeeee @stefaneli888 taken in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala by @jenna_macewen

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18 days ago

Great change happens when women sit together and share knowledge 🤲

We're so grateful for amazing collaboration moments like this one with Daniela Sagastume-Kuhlow from Piña&Kakaw at the 2026 Volcano Summit 🌋

Two organizations with an alike vision of empowering Indigenous women to lead and carry forward the legacy of their knowledge.

This is what working together looks like, real conversations, shared knowledge, and a shoulder-to-shoulder commitment to change that lasts.

Grateful for women like Daniela who show up, share what they know, and build something bigger together 🌎💙

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El gran cambio ocurre cuando las mujeres se reúnen y comparten conocimiento 🤲

Estamos muy agradecidos por momentos de colaboración tan especiales como este con Daniela Sagastume-Kuhlow de Piña&Kakaw en la Cumbre del Volcán 2026 🌋

Dos organizaciones con una visión compartida: empoderar a las mujeres indígenas para liderar y llevar adelante el legado de sus conocimientos.

Esto es lo que significa trabajar juntas: conversaciones reales, conocimiento compartido y un compromiso, hombro a hombro, con un cambio que perdura.

Agradecidos por mujeres como Daniela, que se presentan, comparten lo que saben, y construyen algo más grande juntas 🌎💙 by @jenna_macewen

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22 days ago

🌋 "Women are the matriarchs of the family, taking care of the water, food, and shelter." That's Jenna, our Executive Director, on stage at the Volcano Summit with Daniela Sagastume-Kuhlow, co-founder of Piña&Kakaw.

They talked about the work across Guatemala: Water4Life's black and grey water biodigestors, and Piña&Kakaw turning pineapple waste into textile fiber. Two solutions, one idea: women's empowerment is central to restoring environmental balance, moving from extraction to harmony with the earth.

They also spoke on why investing in small startups and grassroots NGOs, the ones closest to the problem, is some of the highest-leverage funding there is. Real change often comes from the people who've been doing the work quietly for years.

🎥 Watch the highlights.

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🌋 "Las mujeres son las matriarcas de la familia, cuidando el agua, la comida y el refugio." Así lo dijo Jenna, nuestra Directora Ejecutiva, en el escenario del Volcano Summit junto a Daniela Sagastume-Kuhlow, cofundadora de Piña&Kakaw.

Hablaron sobre el trabajo en Guatemala: los biodigestores de aguas negras y grises de Water4Life, y Piña&Kakaw transformando los desechos de piña en fibra textil. Dos soluciones, una misma idea: el empoderamiento de las mujeres es clave para restaurar el equilibrio ambiental, pasando de la extracción a la armonía con la tierra.

También hablaron de por qué invertir en pequeñas startups y ONGs de base, las más cercanas al problema, es de las decisiones de mayor impacto que existen. El cambio real muchas veces viene de quienes han hecho el trabajo en silencio durante años.

🎥 Mira los momentos más destacados.

#WomensEmpowerment #EmpoderamientoFemenino #Guatemala #ClimateJustice #feminism by @jenna_macewen

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a month ago

I'm excited to be joining @volcanosummit in Antigua, Guatemala as a guest speaker September 5th-7th! I'll be diving into my work at Water4Life, and what it takes to bridge community, education and women's empowerment to protect the most sacred element to life.

These years our team has been deep in the planning, piloting and now expanding of our work of closed-loop greywater systems. With so much waste happening all around the world, its going to take a lot more than the government to solve these issues. Once we start opening our eyes to the impact of our individual consumption and waste, we can begin to come together as a community to tackle these issues, one layer at a time.

If you will be at Volcano Summit, stop by my Fireside Chat Day 1 @ 2:45! by @jenna_macewen

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2 months ago

Gota a Gota, Drop by Drop, we’re creating lasting change 💙

A message from Water4Life Executive director, Jenna MacEwen as we launch our Summer 2026 Fundraiser today.

Every donation helps bring clean water, sanitation, education, and sustainable solutions to communities around Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.

✨ Every gift is being matched, doubling your impact.

Donate, share, and be part of the ripple effect. 🌎💧

FUNDRAISER LINK 🔗 https://givebutter.com/c/water4life-summer2026

Gota a gota, Drop by Drop, estamos creando un cambio duradero. 💙

Un mensaje de la Directora Ejecutiva de Water4Life, Jenna MacEwen, con motivo del lanzamiento de nuestra Campaña de Recaudación de Verano 2026.

Cada donación ayuda a llevar agua potable, saneamiento, educación y soluciones sostenibles a las comunidades alrededor del Lago de Atitlán, Guatemala.

✨ Cada donación será igualada, duplicando tu impacto.

Dona, comparte y sé parte de este efecto multiplicador. 🌎💧

ENLACE DE RECAUDACIÓN 🔗 https://givebutter.com/c/water4life-summer2026

#GotaAGota
#Water4Life
#AguaParaTodos
#CleanWater
#LagoAtitlán by @jenna_macewen

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3 months ago

Social Media, for months i've deleted you off my phone, questioning how I want to work with you. I feel more silent these days and a little unclear how I want to show up in my authenticity. So much is unfolding in my life, between heartbreak, career growth, new beginnings and a straighter back bone. For the nearly 8 years of building Water4Life, there was always a wave of "I am not doing enough" or "what the hell do I know". Thanks to a deeper cracking within me (grief), I have a much more grounded sense of myself and a deep knowing of what I bring to the table.

Life is a forever unfolding of greater lessons, leading up to the next evolution of ourselves. I can't say I know exactly what is on the other side of the new me, but I can feel a new found strength that doesn't need to be so loud. Social Media for me was always about expanding my authenticity, yet there was also a subtle need to be seen to validate the strength that I couldn't find within myself.

So now, I come with pride, I come with deep admiration for the energy that I poured into building the Water4Life team that continues to work on the front line of the most pivotal environmental necessity to life. 💧

I give thanks to social media for being the bridge to thousands of donors that have impacted many more thousands of families in Guatemala.

And today, starts our annual summer fundraiser: Gota a Gota, drop by drop. Every donation is doubled up to $10,000, thanks to a generous corporate sponsor of ours.

If you have the means, your impact is much bigger than a few dollars...trust me.

Thank you social media family, I am forever grateful.

Donation link in bio.

With love,
Jenna by @jenna_macewen

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3 months ago

🌿 EARTH DAY for me is honoring the immense amount of energy it takes to get this work off the ground. Countless hours building the team, creating proposals & applications, sourcing funding, following guidelines, training, implementation, data collection, maintenance...the list goes on. But when you see it in action, theres a breath out knowing it's all f*ckin' worth it.

Thanks to the Water4Life Guatemala Team, our donors & Rotary International for supporting solutions that are improving environmental conditions in Guatemala. 💪

Atitlán Vive!

Thanks @ryanwinsor for the shots!! taken in Lake Atitlan Guatemala by @jenna_macewen

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6 months ago

World Water Day: a day of remembrance, we are nothing without it. Protect Her / Protegerla 💧

We are $2,400 away from our $12,000 goal! Can you support 1 family for $60? Every donation is doubled today by a match donor. Link in bio 🙏

📸: @emmapionberlin taken in Lake Atitlán by @jenna_macewen

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7 months ago