Paulina Macías Ortega (she/her) is the 2025–2027 Donald M. and Susan N. Wilson Fellow with the International Litigation and Advocacy team. Originally from Mexico, she holds a Law Degree from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), as well as an LL.M. in National and Global Health Law and a Certificate in International Human Rights Law from Georgetown University. She has also completed courses in freedom of expression, gender equality, bioethics, and strategic human rights litigation at Yale University, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and the University of Buenos Aires.
Paulina has worked on human rights from different institutional and advocacy spaces, including the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the O’Neill Institute in National and Global Health Law and the ACLU. Her work spans human rights and international law, with a focus on gender equality, reproductive justice, access to justice, and intersectionality.