Director of the Social Inclusion Dept., OAS Secretariat for Access to Rights and Equity. Co-Coordinator of the Network #NoSinMujeres. Draper Hills Fellow in Democracy, Development and Rule of Law at Stanford University.
At the end of 2020, more than a quarter of the world's migrant population lived in the Americas, meaning that migrants comprised 7% of the region's total population.
Local governments have responsibility to provide essential services and are in a special position to generate significant changes in the access to rights and inclusion of the citizenry under their charge.