• Educational cualifications:

Law degree at the University of Guadalajara, 2007-2011.
Certificate at Administration and conservacy of natural resources at the Autonomous University of Yucatan and Ducks Unlimited of Mexico. 2013.
Risk assestment and security plans for human right defenders, by Frontline Defenders.
Environmental litigation by the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide.

• Skills:
-Analysis and creation of strategies for legal defense and solution of socio-environmental conflicts.
-Risk analysis and creation of security plans for defenders and organizations.
-Elaboration of public policy on environment and human rights.
-Training on human rights, environment and protection of human rights defenders.

• Professional profile.

-Current Board member of Planting Change Foundation, Nicaragua.

-Current member of the Advisory Council of the Federal Mechanism for Protect Journalist and Human Rights Defenders in Mexico.

-Current executive director in the non government organization “Instituto de Derecho Ambiental A.C.”, based in Jalisco. Lawyer with 9 years of experience in the defense and promotion of third generation Human Rights with an impact on Western Mexico. https://www.ideaac.org.mx/

Versed in the legal defense about megaprojects of development in urban and rural communities, as well as, the protection of human rights defenders and promotion of human rights through education for sustainability and participation in the creation of public policies .

Work Experience in Human Rights.

Institute of Environmental Law A.C. Period from 2011 to the present.

• Protection of human rights and the environment.

We support communities with problems with federal, state or municipal authorities by judiciary, administrative, criminal or international approachs. Thus, we are an active part in the use and validation of legal instruments for access to justice in environmental matters, including public interest litigation, which generate social organization and self-management. Some of the main cases are:

-Ayotitlán (2013- in process). Amparo trial and community work. Legal attention to the Ayotitlán agrarian nucleus which constitutes a Nahua indigenous community in fact. This nucleus has several problems in the social, environmental and economic components. Among them, the territorial conflict in the area endowed with social property by federal decree stands out, where there is an overlap between social property and an iron mining development that operates over an area of ​​1,200 ha and with concessions in 12,000 ha, which implies violations of the human rights of the community. Work to disseminate and reach human rights with the community.

-Precautionary measures for the inhabitants of the Santiago River, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2019- in process). Due to the serious contamination of the body of water, which has an impact on the life and health of the people who live on and the ecosystem.

• Protection of defenders.

Training for risk and threat analysis against defenders and organizations, development of security plans, search for integral protection of human rights defenders through work at international, national and regional levels. Some of the main actions are:

-Santa Cruz de la Soledad, Chapala, Jalisco: Petition for incorporation into the Protection Mechanism for human rights defenders and journalists, made in favor of leaders defending their territory before the attempt to dispossess the development of a real estate tourism megaproject on the shore of Lake Chapala. The petition was admitted on April 27, 2017, with measures being granted at the governing board in 2017 and ratified for 2 years at the governing board of 2018. The file assigned is the MEC / CEN / 033 / D / O / 2017.

- Participation as an exhibitor in the Public Hearing of September 27, 2019 on criminalized environmental defenders, in relation to the 173 session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington D.C. As well as in the preparation of the Report on the misuse of criminal justice systems to retaliate against defenders of the environment. https://www.cejil.org/es/cidh-realiza-audiencia-defensores-ambiental-criminalizados

• Impact on public policies.

- Advisory Council for Sustainable Development Jalisco core (2014-2015). Participant as part of the Youth Sector, participating in recommendations for the application, development and discussion of public policy on conservation, use and restoration of the environment, and in favor of human rights.

- “Agua para todos, agua para la vida” (2014-in process). Participation in the elaboration and construction of the National Law of National Waters, presented before the Federal Congress of Mexico. Participation in citizen coordination of renewal of the Mexican environmental standard NOM-001-SEMARNAT-1996 with observation of the best international practices and standards.

- Participation in the works for the construction of public policies on:
Jalisco Forum for the construction of a new General Water Law, September 13, 2019.
.Design of the National Human Rights Program 2019-2024, on Human Rights Defenders and Journalists of September 30, 2019; on Business and Human Rights of August 19, 2019.

-From the participation in the “OSC Space” as a member party by representing the Institute of Environmental Law within this network that seeks the build of a public policy for integral protection of human rights defenders and journalists.

• Education for sustainability and promotion of human rights.

We provide training courses according to the needs of the petitioners of communities. With this we seek to raise awareness of the need to protect our environment, and to influence the creation and promotion of the environmental and human rights culture. Some of the main actions have been:

-Education for Sustainability, Tonalá (2014). Education for health environmental of water bodies and communities settled in areas marginalized of the metropolitan municipality of Tonalá, by means of the methodology of the 3 ́r (reduce, recycle, reuse), which served a population of approximately 1000 people and that achieved INDESOL recognition for "Impact and Social Commitment" at the federal level.