Sofia Hurtado - Protection Officer

Sofia Hurtado is is Protection Officer with a particular focus supporting Front Line Defenders’ global protection work. Her background is in Human Rights and Peace Building and over the past 12 years she has been working and volunteering with grassroots organisations and the human rights sector.

In the past she worked at international organisations including The Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation (SweFOR) and CRD as the Latin America focal security point building strategies at a local level for the collective and individual protection of human rights defenders and organisations at risk.

She holds an LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.