page_title: Renata Ávila Pinto
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Renata Ávila Pinto / Career
caption_attribution_description: Español: Carlos Brito, Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3DMX, Digital Rights Defense Network) Darío Ramírez, Article 19 Mexico Katitza Rodríguez, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Renata Ávila, Web we want Paz Peña, Derechos Digitales Yana Welinder, Wikimedia Foundation Moderator: Luis Fernando García, Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3DMX, Digital Rights Defense Network)
context_page_description: Renata Ávila Pinto is a Guatemalan lawyer and activist specializing in technology and intellectual property. She is a spokesperson and part of the team that defends Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, under the direction of Baltasar Garzón. Since 2018 she has been the Executive Director of the Intelligent Citizenship Foundation, based in Chile and Brazil.
  She was a defender of survivors of genocide and other human rights abuses in Guatemala, and was part of the legal team led by the Spanish lawyer Almudena Bernabeu in the case of Rigoberta Menchú against Efraín Ríos Montt.
  She is a member of the board of directors of Creative Commons, an international organization that advocates for open knowledge and libre culture. She is also a board member of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, a pan-European initiative launched by former Greek finance minister and economist Yanis Varoufakis, which seeks to democratize the European Union.
context_section_description: Renata Ávila Pinto holds a licentiate in law from the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and has a master's degree in law from the University of Turin, as well as studies in international law in The Hague.
  She was part of the international legal team that represented the victims of genocide and other crimes against humanity in their extradition case before the National Court of Spain, including the prominent indigenous leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. She has also been a legal advisor to various whistleblowers and journalists, alongside the lawyer Baltasar Garzón.
  As a digital rights activist, she has denounced the deterioration of net neutrality, mass surveillance, and attacks on freedom of expression on the Internet. For five years she was chief digital rights advisor at the World Wide Web Foundation. Along with founder Tim Berners-Lee, she led the Web We Want campaign, promoting respect for human rights in the digital era in more than 75 countries. She is currently the executive director of the Chilean Intelligent Citizenship Foundation, an organization that promotes the openness of data and its use in favor of society in Latin America.
  Ávila is a member of the Creative Commons board and a trustee of the Courage Foundation. She also serves as a member of the DECODE advisory board and the University of Amsterdam's Data Activism project. She is part of the coordinating collective of DiEM25, which explores the potential of decentralized technologies in Europe.
  She has written for media outlets such as eldiario.es, Global Voices, and openDemocracy, as well as for various academic publications and international periodicals. She appeared in the documentaries ForEveryone.Net (2015), Risk (2016), and Hacking Justice (2017).
  The book Women, Whistleblowing, Wikileaks: A Conversation, which she co-wrote with Sarah Harrison and Angela Richter, covers women who have played an active role in WikiLeaks, but who have not had proportionate media coverage.
  In 2014, she was one of the participants in the creation of the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet in order to implement legislation to protect net neutrality.
caption: At the Latin America Internet Freedoms Panel in 2015
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