Luz Estela ”Lucha” Castro is a teacher, theologist, and lawyer. She is a human rights defender who for more than twenty years has provided legal representation to victims of human rights violations: femicide, trafficking, torture, disappearances, sexual and family violence. Since then, she has defended women’s rights and actively promotes the leadership of other women. Passionate about justice, Lucha has provided free legal representation to hundreds of victims of human rights violations, setting precedents in her favor in court. She coordinated work to incorporate women’s rights and the perspective of gender into the criminal prosecution system in Chihuahua, in line with international standards. She has been a citizen counsellor, providing technical assistance to government entities. She was a driver of the first Justice Center for Women in the country, installed in Chihuahua. Her work focuses on strategic litigation, psychosocial support, and empowerment of victims, to strengthen their capacities in the exercise of their rights in court. She is a pioneer in judicial activism in the country and is convinced that laws are for use and enforcement. In 2005, she co-founded the Center for Women’s Human Rights. In early 2000, she founded, together with mothers of missing and murdered women of Juarez City and Chihuahua, the organization Justicia para Nuestras Hijas (Justice for Our Daughters). In 1994, she pioneered political civil resistance in Chihuahua, in the defense of families, and, in particular, women, whose wealth was at risk due to the economic crisis in Mexico. She is an expert in women’s public policy, access to justice, and the right to housing. On these topics, she has been invited to participate as a lecturer at universities such as Harvard, Yale, Duke, and Stanford, in the United States and in about 20 other countries.