Ana Aguilar

Ana Aguilar

Ana Aguilar is a resident fellow for the National Criminal Justice Reform program focusing on Legal Aid. She holds a law degree from Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City and an LLM in Human Rights from Central European University. After graduation she participated in the elaboration of the Commented Constitution of the State of Tamaulipas then interned with the Interior Ministry of the Federal Government of Mexico. In 2002 she took part in the National Forestry Survey by CIDE and from 2003 she became Research Assistant in CIDE working on the Program of Reform of Law Lecturing, later on United Nations Development Project (UNDP) report on transparency and fulfillment of tasks of local justice in Mexico and was part of project “Access to Justice of Indigenous People of Oaxaca”. Within the legal aid program based in Mexico, Ana specializes on free legal aid for indigent criminal defendants.