Valentina Vera Quiroz
Valentina Vera Quiroz
Human Rights, Tech, and Policy Fellow, Wikimedia Foundation

About me

I am a Human Rights, Tech, and Policy fellow at Wikimedia Foundation. I graduated with a Masters in Law (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School in May 2022. As a lawyer and researcher, I have built a career fighting and advocating for freedom of expression. I have conducted extensive research for the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Global Voices, Global Freedom of Expression at Columbia University, and the Foundation for Press Freedom. In the Legal field, I have clerked at the Constitutional Court of Colombia and Colombia’s Transitional Justice Tribunal, and have been an assistant professor in Public International Law at the University of Los Andes in Colombia.

I am interested in studying how the law should treat the struggles for collective memory and the efforts of social movements to bring the issue of collective remembering into the digital realm.

My work

I work at the intersection of the legal and global advocacy teams at WMF, focusing on human rights, technology, and policy issues. In particular, I advise both teams on topics such as human rights due diligence, public policy on disinformation, and privacy laws in different jurisdictions.

Disclaimer: I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I try to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation. The legal team can only represent the Wikimedia Foundation on legal matters, so we are unable to give legal advice to others, including community members, editors, or contributors. Communications with members of the legal team are not consultations and do not create any confidential relationship.

Contact me

Email: vveraquiroz-ctr@wikimedia.org

Twitter: @valeveraq