Cristina Hardaga has a degree in International Relations from the Universidad Iberoamericana / Iberoamericana University specializing in Human Rights and the Democratization Process in joint program from the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile and the International Center Fro Transitional Justice. Since 2009 she has worked at the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center (THCR) a non-governmental organization dedicated for 18 years to the defense and promotion of human rights in the state of Guerrero, in Mexico’s southwest region. Prior to working at THCR she had the opportunity to work in the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, a non-governmental organization, as a Researcher in the Human Rights Program of the Iberoamericana University and as a consultant of Human Rights in the LX Legislature of the Congress for the Parliamentary Group of the PRD.