Peru’s Path Forward: Navigating Political, Economic, and Global Dynamics

Program: Gender Rights

Aiyanna Maciel

Aiyanna Maciel is originally from Raymond, Maine. She received her B.A. in World Languages and Cultures with a concentration in Spanish Translation from Stetson University in 2019 and is expected to receive her M.A. in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University in May 2021.

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Maria Sylvia de Oliveira

Maria Sylvia de Oliveira is president of the GELEDÉS Instituto da Mulher Negra, a civil society organization that fights for the rights of women and Black Brazilians. She is an attorney and works in the area of human rights, gender, race, and ethnicity issues and in combating violence against women and domestic and family violence.

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Giselle Carino

Giselle Carino is the CEO for the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPFWHR) where she leads a network of 45 autonomous local partners that work to guarantee that sexual and reproductive health and rights are a human right for all.

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Ana Cristina González Vélez

Ana Cristina González Vélez is a well-known international researcher, advocate, and expert in the field of sexual and reproductive health and the right to health and gender equality. She teaches health law at the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad de Los Andes and is the former national public health director of Colombia.

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Vilma Ibarra

Vilma Ibarra is the legal and technical secretary of the Presidency under President Alberto Fernandez of Argentina. Prior to this role, she served as a national senator and then national deputy for Buenos Aires.

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Marta Alanis

Marta Alanis is the founder of Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir (CDD) in Argentina. She is a member of the Commission of Articulation and the Lobbying Commission of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion.

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Ross LaJeunesse

Ross LaJeunesse is an adjunct professor at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. He also served as an advisor to US Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell and to Senator Edward Kennedy.

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Margarita Salas Guzmán

Margarita Salas Guzmán is currently the presidential commissioner for LGBTIQ affairs of Costa Rica and serves as president of the political party, Partido VAMOS.

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Wally Brewster

Ambassador Wally Brewster is currently the CEO of Insignias Global, a strategy firm representing top CEOs and political leaders around the globe. Most recently, he served as the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic.

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Paula Uribe

Paula Uribe is director of Public Policy and Government Affairs for PepsiCo. She previously served at the US Department of State as senior policy advisor to the assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

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