May Lecture: Carolina Jimenéz Sandoval, Latin American & Trump 2.0: An Uneasy & Troubled Relationship

Carolina Jimenéz Sandoval, Human Rights in Latin America
May 21
10:30-11:30 AM
Online via Zoom

Carolina Jiménez Sandoval is the President of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). She has over 20 years of experience in research and advocacy for human rights in the Americas and throughout the world. She guides WOLA’s team to achieve strategic impact in social justice and human rights.

Prior to WOLA, she served for almost seven years as Deputy Research Director for the Americas with Amnesty International in Mexico City, leading a team of researchers documenting human rights violations and designing advocacy strategies. Prior to that, she was program officer for the Open Society Foundations’ Latin America Program and International Migration Initiative.

From 2008-2010, she was the country director of the Jesuit Refugee Service on the Colombian-Venezuelan border. She also worked at the United Nations University in Japan and in Argentina with the Gender and Public Policy Unit of the Latin American Faculty of Social Science.

She has a PhD in international studies from Waseda University, Japan; a master’s in international law and Asian studies from Chuo University, Japan; a master’s in international relations from the University of Cambridge, England; and a BA in international relations from the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

She is a frequent contributor in English and Spanish to media outlets and publications in Latin America, the US, and Europe, including the Washington Post, the New York Times, PBS, CNN, BBC, The Guardian, and others. She is a national of both Venezuela and Mexico.

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