Staff | Asociación por los Derechos Civiles

Valeria Milanes

Executive Director

IT Law specialist, graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is a lawyer with experience in litigation, researcher, and lecturer in IT Law, with a special focus on data protection and privacy. She has participated as a guest lecturer in postgraduate courses at the UBA and the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She joined ADC in 2015 in charge of the areas of Freedom of Expression and Privacy and developed the digital area. In 2018 she was appointed as Executive Director. She integrates various international spaces representing ADC and civil society in general, namely: she is a member of the Reference Panel of the Global Privacy Assembly, coordinates the Civil Society Forum of the Ibero-American Data Protection Network, and maintains active participation in the Civil 20, which is the engagement group representing civil society in the G20. She has been elected for the third time as a member of the Steering Committee of CSISAC, which is the global civil society space that acts as an observer of the OECD's Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP).

Alejandro Segarra

Director of Strategic Litigation

He is a founding partner of the law firm PSM Abogados, in charge of the criminal and constitutional law area, professor of Criminal Procedural Law at the undergraduate course at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and member of the Argentine Association of Professors of Criminal Procedural Law. He is also deputy director of the Institute of Constitutional Law of the Bar Association of San Isidro, Province of Buenos Aires. He worked in the Public Defender's Office before the Correctional Courts of the Federal Capital. He was an associate lawyer at Negri & Teijeiro Law Firm, in the area of commercial law, international contracts, and corporate matters. He was legal advisor in constitutional and criminal matters at the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Congress. As director of Strategic Litigation of ADC, he has filed lawsuits and amicus curiae briefs in several areas of law, such as freedom of expression, disability, and privacy, among others, which have had a strong impact at the national and regional levels.

Sergio Bustamante Godoy

Director of Training and Talent

Journalist (UMSA), Bachelor in Communication Sciences (UNSAM), University Professor (Maimónides), and a postgraduate degree in Education and New Technologies (FLACSO). He has more than 15 years of experience in Human Capital areas in different private organizations. Passionate about learning, has great experience in cultural change management, and with a participative leadership style due to his teaching activity. Committed, autonomous, cheerful, and strongly client-oriented. He started at ADC as a consultant and after several implementations of learning-oriented processes, he was appointed as Director of Training and Talent.

Adriana Zanutigh

Senior Consultant

Adriana Zanutigh is a Lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and a career diplomat graduated from the Argentine Foreign Service Institute (ISEN). As such, she worked for various Argentine embassies and consulates abroad. She lived in Switzerland, the UK, Bolivia, and Uruguay. She discharged specialized duties on issues of bilateral policy, public organization and management, and international trade. She was the General Director of International Cooperation and Argentine Cooperation for Development and participated in several missions to various countries. She is a member of professional diplomatic organizations and works for ADC as a senior consultant.

Eduardo Ferreyra

Project Leader

Lawyer graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán and holds a Master's degree in Human Rights and Democratization in Latin America from the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). He took courses at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the functioning of the Inter-American system and is an assistant professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He is currently working as a project leader. His work has been linked to the effects of digital technologies on freedom of expression, privacy, and personal data protection.

Marianela Milanes

Project Leader

She holds a degree in Political Science from the School of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). After a decade of working in public administration, she joined the ADC team, where she currently works as a project leader, seeking the defense of human rights and the strengthening of democracy, mainly in the digital environment.

Julieta Cravero

Strategic Communication Leader

She has a degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and a degree in Journalism from TEA. She specializes in parliamentary activity, strategic communication, planning, and gender. She is currently taking a postgraduate course in Communication, Gender, and Sexualities at the UBA. During her professional career, she has worked in the field of corporate communication, journalism, and political analysis, and has worked in the private, public, and non-profit sectors. She is currently in charge of coordinating and planning ADC's strategic communication and contact with the press, carrying out institutional strengthening actions, and positioning the organization as an actor of public interest.

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Matías Chamorro

Communication Officer

Journalist and digital marketing specialist. Graduated as General Journalism Technician at Taller Escuela Agencia (TEA). He collaborated in local print media as a reporter, interviewer, and cultural journalist, in addition to working in the production of content for various television and audiovisual projects. He works at ADC as a communications officer, with a special focus on the institutional dissemination of the organization's activities and projects.

Paula Cohen Noguerol

Communication Officer

Degree in Social Communication (UNLZ) and a diploma in Gender, Feminism, and Human Rights (UNQ). She specialized in cultural management, gender, and comprehensive sexual education (FLACSO and UNSAM). For more than a decade she has been working as a communicator and manager linked mainly to arts and disability in the third sector. At ADC she works in the area of communication with a focus on planning and management of social networks.

Eliana Velez

Educational Designer

Degree in Education Sciences from the Universidad del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (UNCPBA). She specialized in the design and planning of educational offers with e-Learning modality and its implementation in Moodle virtual platform. She worked as an Instructional Designer and was responsible for the development of processes and monitoring of Educational Quality indicators. She currently works as Pedagogical and Instructional Designer for the ADC Campus, focusing on digital accessibility.

Sara Soubelet

Project Officer

Lawyer by the National University of La Plata. Member of the Family Diversity and Family Law Extension Program of the School of Law and Social Sciences. She works at ADC as Project Officer. She researches children and adolescents' rights in the digital environment. She is part of the research team of PubliElectoral since 2019 analyzing electoral campaigns on digital platforms.

María Sol Abichain

Project Officer

BA in Audiovisual Communication (UNSAM) and Journalist (TEA). She has worked in communication and health and in the social sector. She collaborates with graphic and digital media and different NGOs. In recent years she has focused on social issues in their intersection with new technologies. In ADC she is a project officer and accompanies the development of PUEDA, an initiative that aims to research, disseminate and promote Digital Accessibility.

Milena Álvarez

Project Assistant

Student of Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She has worked in the public sector and is currently an analyst of ballot processes in the PubliElectoral project of ADC.

Bernardo Bazet Viñas

Project Assistant

Lawyer from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), specialist in Criminal Law from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT), and currently a student of the Master's Degree in Criminal Law at the UTDT. He worked as a graduate assistant in Criminal Law at the UNLP and as a collaborator of the Funrepar Foundation in the Restorative Juvenile Justice Program in the Province of Córdoba. He currently works as a project assistant at ADC in monitoring and contributing to the improvement of the selection and training process of federal judges in Argentina.

Giuliana Maddonni

Project Assistant

Advanced student of Social Work at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She worked in the public sector in the promotion of adolescents' rights. She works as an assistant in the PUEDA project of the ADC providing support on accessibility in digital environments.

Camila Saleme

Project Assistant

She is a law student at Universidad Torcuato di Tella (UTDT). She has worked in the private sector and previously worked in research at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University and in academia. She is currently working as a project assistant promoting the adoption of methods to ensure transparency in the selection process of judges and the training of judicial actors in Argentina.

Daiana Otero

Finance Office

Bachelor's Degree in Administration from the School of Applied Sciences of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP - Brazil). Currently a student of Public Accounting at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He has experience in the area of administration and finance in both the public and private sectors. She has participated in projects of evaluation of science, technology, and innovation programs and policies. He currently works at ADC as responsible for financial planning, execution, and reporting.

Silvina Vladimirsky

Administration

Commercial Graduate. She developed her activities in small and medium-sized companies in the areas of treasury, suppliers and accounting, actively participating in requirements and audits. She works for ADC as assistant to the Executive Management and administration.