Rigoberta Menchu

Rigoberta Menchu

Nobel Peace Award

Guatemala

International human rights lawyer and digital rights expert. She is the Director of the Smart Citizenship Foundation, an international NGO that aims to strengthen Latin American democracies through the innovative use of technology. In her practice, she represented indigenous victims of genocide and other human rights abuses, including the prominent indigenous leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum. She also acted pro bono as one of the lawyers defending Baltasar Garzon and Wikileaks and her work protecting freedom of speech in the digital age was featured in the film “Hacking Justice”.