Tía Pikachu
Chilean politician
Giovanna Jazmín Grandón Caro (born 6 May 1975), also known as Tía Pikachu (Auntie Pikachu) or Baila Pikachu (Dancing Pikachu), is a Chilean preschool teacher, political activist, and politician. She obtained great attention during the 2019 Chilean protests, mostly due to her wearing a costume of the species Pikachu from the Japanese media franchise Pokémon. On 16 May 2021, she was elected as a member of the Chilean assembly that will write the new Chilean constitution as a response to the 2019 protests.
Early life
Giovanna Grandón was born in Santiago de Chile as the eldest of four sisters. From an early age, she helped her single mother with housework and taking care of her younger sisters. In her adolescence, she met Jorge Millán Abarzua, with whom she married in 1993 and had a daughter and three sons.
She worked as a vendor and a door-to-door saleswoman and later studied a technical career in early education, which she began to practice in 1996 at the National Board of Kindergartens, where her work consisted largely of educating and caring for children at social risk in their early childhood. In 2020, Grandón said in a YouTube live video that working as an educator was a difficult period in which the educators witnessed crude stories and experiences of their young students, who were at social risk.
Grandón began working as a school bus driver in 2015, providing services for a school in the Peñalolén commune. Before the social outburst, she lived at Lo Hermida neighborhood in the same commune, where she and her family were preparing to move to Piriápolis in Uruguay to look for new opportunities.
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