Jahel Quiroga Carrillo is a Colombian industrial engineer, human rights activist, and politician of the Patriotic Union party (UP).

[1] She studied industrial engineering at Francisco José de Caldas District University in Bogotá.

[1][3] In 1993, Quiroga founded the non-governmental organization Reiniciar together with Aída Avella and other surviving members of the UP, with the purpose of assisting victims of human rights violations and documenting the extermination of her political group.

[1] That December, she took the UP's case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights because judicial investigations were not advancing in Colombia.

[5] In 2012, Quiroga received the Order of the Colombian Congress in the degree of Knight for her contribution to the defense of the human rights of the victims of attacks against the Patriotic Union.