Author portrait © George Baier IV.
Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno is an advocate, writer, and lawyer who has worked globally on issues of autocracy, corruption, armed conflict, and organized crime. She is the author of the narrative non-fiction book There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia (Bold Type Books, Feb. 2017), which won the 2018 Juan E. Méndez Human Rights Book Award; the book's Spanish translation, by Planeta Colombia, is on its third printing.
Maria is currently the CEO at RepresentUs, a US pro-democracy and anti-corruption organization. She has held multiple senior positions at Human Rights Watch and served as executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. She started her career as a senior Americas researcher for Human Rights Watch, covering Colombia's internal armed conflict and working on the extradition and trial of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori.