Tatiana Cordero Velásquez is the Executive Director of the Urgent Action Fund Latin America. Tatiana has been an activist and a scholar on gender studies and was part of the feminist collectives that worked to ensure the inclusion of women's rights in Ecuador’s constitution in 1998 and 2008. She was also part of the regional team of the Women, Health and Development Program at the Pan American Health Organization-Ecuador. She holds an MA in Gender Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Holland.