Renata Ávila Pinto

[1] She was a defender of survivors of genocide and other human rights abuses in Guatemala, and was part of the legal team led by the Spanish lawyer Almudena Bernabeu in the case of Rigoberta Menchú against Efraín Ríos Montt.

She is also a board member of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a pan-European initiative launched by former Greek finance minister and economist Yanis Varoufakis, which seeks to democratize the European Union.

She was part of the international legal team that represented the victims of genocide and other crimes against humanity in their extradition case before the National Court of Spain, including the prominent indigenous leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú.

[4][5] As a digital rights activist, she has denounced the deterioration of net neutrality, mass surveillance, and attacks on freedom of expression on the Internet.

[7] In 2018 she was appointed Executive Director of the Intelligent Citizenship Foundation [es], an organization that promotes the openness of data and its use in favor of society in Latin America, based in Chile and Brazil.

At the Latin America Internet Freedoms Panel in 2015