Quetzali Cerezo

Quetzali Cerezo, is the founder and Director of the Guatemalan organization Women in Equity – Guatemala (Asociación Movimiento por la Equidad en Guatemala -AME-Guatemala). Quetzali is a lawyer and activist who has focused on gender-based violence and discrimination and now dedicates a good portion of her time to the issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her organization has developed a critical mass of support from Guatemala’s legal community, specifically by engaging leaders from the Bar Association. She is the daughter of Guatemala’s first democratically elected president, Vinicio Cerezo (1986-1991) and her mother, Raquel Blandón, is one of the leaders of the country’s feminist movement. Quetzali is also a co-founder of the Grupo Multidisciplinario – the country’s only coalition dedicated to expanding abortion rights, and is also part of PP Global’s Latin American Legal Network – a regional group of lawyers dedicated to defending reproductive health care providers.