PROFILE

Elisa Sarai Cuyuch Menchú

Elisa Sarai Cuyuch Menchú

Executive, AIETD and Related Fields, AIETD Guatemala Chapter

Publishes in: Spanish

Completed the coursework for the Bachelor’s degree in
Legal and Social Sciences, Law and Notarial
Practice at the Universidad de San Carlos de
Guatemala, with a strong vocation
for education and for the expansion and promotion of
human rights, as well as leadership, discipline,
honesty and responsibility. Skilled and
proficient in techniques, project management,
analysis, drafting and public presentation, with
strong interpersonal skills.
During her academic career she took part as an
oralist in national and
international moot court competitions such as: the
Jorge Mario García Competition, organized by
the Centro Universitario de Occidente CUNOC-
USAC; the “Sergio García
Ramírez” Human Rights Competition organized by UNAM; and the
Regional Human Rights Mock Trial Competition
of the academic program
MOOT COURT organized by the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de Honduras –UNAH;

She has served as coach in the training of teams that
have taken part in international competitions,
and she also contributed, through an amicus curiae brief
submitted by the Universidad de San Carlos
before the Corte Suprema de Justicia de Guatemala,
to the proceedings for the closure of mining companies on
indigenous peoples’ lands.
: The Trial Lawyer in Latin America