Julia Álvarez Icaza

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A lawyer from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), an activist, and a feminist from various spaces of civil society, she has carried out strategic litigation related to human rights, specifically with problems related to criminal law and women in prison, Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights (ESCER), and gender. In this sense, he has worked in various non-governmental organizations, institutions, and projects with these issues as their central axis. In 2015 she completed an internship at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington, D.C. In addition, from 2016 to 2018, she collaborated with the Institute for Legal Research of UNAM, and from 2019 to 2021, she was a fellow of the Bertha Foundation in the organization of civil society ProDESC A.C. He also worked at the Fundación Semillas de Vida A.C. and is part of the National Campaign Without Corn there is no Country, is the founder of the Alternative Market and since 2023 is head of the Department of Restorative Justice in the Secretariat of Special Projects of the Center for Research on Gender Studies (CIEG). Her current lines of research are gender, anti-punitiveness, restorative justice, damage reparation, critical criminology, and the criminal justice system.

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