Mariana Sousa

Mariana Sousa

Mariana Sousa serves as the Communications Manager for Guardian Community Trust, where she leads storytelling, public-facing communications, and content strategy across the organization’s initiatives. She brings over a decade of experience in content development, brand strategy, and advertising, with a background spanning healthcare, public service, and mission-driven organizations. At Guardian Community Trust, Mariana translates complex guardianship work into clear, human-centered communication that builds understanding, transparency, and trust.

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2 While both “unbefriended” and “unrepresented” are commonly used to refer to the population of concern to the Institute, we use the latter in this Report, as being more technically correct and less distracting than the other, more emotive term. In using the term, we do not intend to imply anything about legal representation.

1 Moye, J., et al., Ethical Concerns and Procedure Pathways for Patients Who are Incapacitated and Alone, HEC Forum DOI 10.1007/s10730‐016‐9317‐9 (published online), p. 4 (Jan. 13, 2017.