Ana Maria Mendez Jaramillo

Ana María Méndez is a PhD candidate in Law at Universidad de los Andes. She holds a Law degree from the same University, a Master´s degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) and a specialization in Constitutional Law from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. In addition, she has professional experience in Constitutional Law and Gender. Ana Maria was part of the legal team in the “Causa Justa” movement that drafted the constitutional petition that resulted in Sentencia C-055 of 2022, which decriminalized abortion until week 24 in Colombia. She is currently a visiting scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.