Alejandra Ancheita

Alejandra Constanza Ancheita is a Mexican human rights lawyer, working in the field since the 1990s. She was the 2014 recipient of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders.

Background Ancheita lost her father at a young age.

Ancheita holds a master's degree in International Law and Global Justice at Fordham University.

In 2013, Alejandra received the Wasserstein Public Interest Award from Harvard Law School.

She has worked with Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. She has been a member of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)'s advisory board. She has sat on the Oxford University Press's Journal of Human Rights Practice advisory board. She sits on Global Labor Justice's IRLF Board of Directors.