Sixty-seventh meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Antonia Cósmica Orellana Guarello is a journalist with a specialization in Media Management from the Institute of Communication and Image of the University of Chile (2014). She has dedicated an important part of her professional career to support the development and dissemination of different social and political organizations in the country, highlighting her commitment to the feminist movement both in Chile and Latin America. She was a member of the School of Popular Communication 2012- 2015 and from that year until 2020 she was an adjunct member of the Chilean Network against Violence against Women in the Metropolitan Region.

In 2017 she was part of the Gender programmatic team of Beatriz Sánchez's presidential candidacy and three years later she was coordinator of the Frente Amplio for the law initiative for parity in the constituent process and coordinator of the Articulación de Mujeres de Oposición and the campaign “Unidas por el Apruebo”. She stands out, together with Marcela Sandoval, as co-author of the follow-up report “Violence against women in Chile during the COVID-19 pandemic: An Absent State”, delivered to the UN High Commissioner Dubravka Simunovic, 2020. For the presidential election of 2021 she was in charge of Social Organizations of the command of the President, Gabriel Boric and was a member of the feminist team of Plan de Gobierno.