Laura Rico Email & Phone Number

Colombia

Global

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Co-founder of grassroots campaigning project focused on citizen empowerment, democracy building and social justice in Colombia. Member of the Online Progressive Engagement Network (OPEN: https://www.the-open.net/), a global sisterhood of national campaigning organizations.

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Consultant for this strategic communications agency. 2017: Seguimos Unidos, El Salvador http://seguimosunidos.com/. Ongoing projects in other countries of Latin America.

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Strategy consultant for mobilization, digital, and public campaign lead by Todos Por la Paz foundation to support the peace process in Colombia and promote the YES vote in the October 2 national peace plebiscite. Responsibilities included project and budget overview, managing relationships with local civil society groups, designing digital petition drive.

Bogota

Coordinate, advise, and support various national offices in building strategies, communications, and action plans within the Break Free Project 2016. Lead coordination with external stakeholders, managing the project budget in cooperation with the Finance unit, and helping strengthen and mobilize supporters and local communities.

Bogota, Colombia

Independent consultant for Climate and Energy Team at Greenpeace International and Greenpeace Colombia. Research, strategy, legal, political and public campaign advisor.

Bogotá, Colombia

Researched, developed, wrote and delivered global and national advocacy campaigns with a strong focus in Latin America. Organizer of Climate March in Lima during UN COP20. Spokesperson for People’s Climate March 2014 in Bogota. Latin America lead, project manager, and line manager within Avaaz. English-Spanish-English translator and coordinator of Spanish.

Bogotá, Colombia

Journalist, Photographer and Videographer. Proposed, reported and wrote an average of two stories a week and shot all the photography and video for Lasillavacia.com, Colombia’s main independent online newspaper about politics and power. Covered the political elections in Colombia of 2009 – 2010, the city (Bogotá), environmental issues, indigenous.

Bogotá, Colombia

Designed and taught the Academic Research Seminar to senior year students of the Law School’s undergraduate program. Taught students how to design, plan, develop and complete an academic research, as well as how to write an academic essay. Directed, supervised and evaluated three graduation thesis of undergraduate students.

Bogotá, Colombia

Proposed, coordinated and developed research projects related to human rights in Colombia. Studied the living conditions of prisoners and prisons in and wrote an article reporting the results. Analyzed the access to work and work conditions of persons with disabilities and co-published a book about it based on original fieldwork. Analyzed the laws and.

Bogotá, Colombia

Solicited copyright authorisations and edited essay and book submissions for publication in Derecho y Sociedad, a law and society book series published by the Law School of the University of Los Andes Press and Siglo de Hombre Editores. Revised and did Spanish – English translations.

Bogotá, Colombia

Research assistant in two undergraduate courses: Judicial Reasoning and Sociology of Law. Prepared lessons, revised bibliography, reviewed and graded student assignments.

Bogotá, Colombia

Completed research assignments for columns and articles on multicultural rights of indigenous communities in Colombia. Reconstructed the U’wa community case and analysed the case law of the Constitutional Court on the matter. Developed the field work of a research about legal pluralism in squatters in Bogotá; recollected and reviewed the initial.

Bogotá, Colombia

Prepared briefs, status reports, emails, lawsuits and conciliation letters regarding unfair competition, counterfeiting and trademark infringements for the Intellectual Property Department. The majority of the work done was in English for the international clients.

Master Of Laws (Llm), Law

LLM thesis published by the University of los Andes press (July 2009)

Bachelor Of Laws (Ll.B.), Law

Activities and Societies: Recipient of the Ciro Angarita Fellowship in 2005 and 2006 Teacher Monitor

Minor In Literature, Arts And Humanities Department

High School

Honor Roll Student and won best Senior Independent Project of my senior class 2001.