OTILIA INÉS LUX GARCÍA DE COTÍ (Guatemala)

Graduate in Educational Administration. Maya K’iche’/Guatemalan woman.

Advisor to MADRE for indigenous women based in New York, as well as of the Emblematic Indigenous Women’s Program of the Indigenous Fund of Latin America and the Caribbean, FILAC. Member of the Latin American and Caribbean Advisory Group for UN Women in Latin America and the Caribbean and Guatemala.

She was a member of the Historical Clarification Commission on the violation of human rights and acts of violence in Guatemala. Former Member of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala. Former Minister of Culture and Sports of Guatemala. Former representative of Guatemala to the Executive Board of UNESCO.

She was also an expert on Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.