Catalina Martínez Coral is a Colombian feminist lawyer and Vice President at the Center for Reproductive Rights, with extensive experience leading strategic litigation teams advancing sexual and reproductive rights across Latin America. She has spearheaded landmark cases at national, regional, and international levels, including the constitutional litigation that decriminalized abortion in Colombia as part of the Causa Justa movement, emblematic Inter-American human rights cases such as Paola Guzmán Albarracín v. Ecuador and Manuela v. El Salvador, and groundbreaking petitions before the UN Human Rights Committee through the Girls Not Mothers campaign.

Her work has contributed to major jurisprudential advances on reproductive autonomy, dignity, freedom of expression, and the recognition of forced pregnancy and forced motherhood as human rights violations. Catalina collaborates closely with global and Latin American law firms as well as civil society organizations in 12 countries across the region, combining legal strategy with movement-building and regional advocacy. She also led pioneering research at the intersection of reproductive justice and environmental justice, documenting the harmful impacts of glyphosate and other agrotoxins on human reproductive health—work that has informed ongoing litigation before the Inter-American human rights system.

Catalina holds a law degree from Colombia and master’s degrees from Sciences Po and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, with a focus on international law. She is an Aspen Fellow, a Vital Voices leader, and was included in the list of TIME100 next in 2025 for her leadership and impact.