Martina Rapido Ragozzino

Martina is a Senior Research Assistant for the Americas division. She has researched and written on a wide range of topics, including prison conditions, migration, repression against demonstrators, attacks on the rule of law, and harassment against judges, prosecutors, journalists, and human rights defenders. Before joining Human Rights Watch, she served as a legal fellow in the advocacy and litigation team at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, practiced law in Rosero&Albán Law firm and worked as a project coordinator in the Universidad San Francisco de Quito Law School, where she still teaches international human rights law. She earned a law degree from Universidad San Francisco (Ecuador) and has a master’s degree in international human rights law from University of Notre Dame (United States). She speaks English, Spanish, Italian and some Portuguese.