Alejandra Cárdenas Cerón

Alejandra Cardenas Ceron leads the Center for Reproductive Rights’ Department of Legal Strategies, Research and Innovation, responsible for ensuring technical excellence, thought leadership, and the creation of the organization’s legal strategies across the world. Alejandra is a Colombian lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in the fields of international law, human rights, gender and reproductive rights.  Before joining the Center, Alejandra served as Regional Director for Latin America and East Africa at Women’s Link Worldwide, an intersectional feminist, anti-racist, anti-ableist and anti-colonial human rights organization.  At Women’s Link Alejandra oversaw programs across 10 countries in two regions. Prior to her leadership position at Women’s Link Alejandra was a Human Rights Expert with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the main and autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS) in charge of the promotion and protection of human rights in the American continent. Alejandra oversaw the portfolio of cases against the States of Peru and Bolivia. Alejandra has worked for the International Center for Transitional Justice, Fundaminga, and ILSA. She received a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, and a master’s in international public law from Harvard University, where she was the recipient of the Irving F. Kaufman fellowship. Alejandra has published numerous articles on different human rights issues for both academic and popular publications, and is frequently invited to serve as a guest lecturer at Universities around the world.