Juanita Cabrera Lopez, Executive Director of the International Mayan League

Juanita is Maya Mam from Guatemala and a survivor of the internal armed conflict and a former political refugee. She works with Maya leaders and elders in Guatemala and the United States for the advancement of their human and environmental rights. Her work is focused on the use and implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She holds a Master of International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.