Santiago Pardo Rodríguez Head of the Design fo Justice Lab

Head of the Data Analytics Office

Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad, Convivencia y Justicia

Feb 2020 - Nov 2020 (10 months)

• Lead a twelve-person data-driven multidisciplinary team responsible for the design, evaluation, and implementation of all the evidence-based policy related to security and justice in Bogotá; developed the evaluation model for policy goals on security and justice introduced by the four-year Bogota’s Development Plan; oversaw the publication of 48 policy briefs around security and justice problems produced as feedback to peers and supervisors to enhance their decision-making capabilities; represented the head of the Department in a monthly working group meeting in the Kennedy Borough -Bogota’s second-largest district by inhabitants- where I worked along with the Police, the local authorities and activists in the coordination and implementat

Head of the Design for Justice Lab

Universidad de los Andes

Jan 2019 - Current (7 years 4 months)

• Founded the Access to Justice Design Lab, a ground-breaking joint venture between engineers, designers and lawyers created to overcome real problems related to access to justice through strategic thinking, user-centered design, and interdisciplinary collaboration; promoted a culture of learning through experimentation and openness to learn from mistakes among 70 engineers, design and law students in legal innovation methodologies related to access to justice in weekly three-hour seminars during two academic years. • Worked effectively with the Colombian Constitutional Court, Peace Tribunal, Supreme Court, the Universidad de los Andes’ Center for Development Studies, the Stanford Medicine School, and with the Office of Congresswomen Juani

Law Clerk for Justice Rodolfo Arango Rivadeneira

Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz

Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 (1 year 1 month)

• Authored the first technical document submitted to the justices of the Peace Tribunal related to the special sanction regime designed for those responsible for the more severe crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court per the 2016 Peace Accord; produced an empirical legal study, based on quantitative multi-variable analysis, of 150 decisions produced by the Peace Tribunal and formulated with that report five recommendations to the justices to improve the Court’s internal organizational model; drafted 15 decisions related to the amnesty agreements made within the 2016 Peace Accord for members of the armed forces of the former FARC guerrilla that came forward to the Tribunal.

Law Clerk for Justice Gloria Stella Ortíz Delgado

Corte Constitucional de Colombia

Aug 2014 - Aug 2017 (3 years 1 month)

• Drafted the landmark ruling in the Sergio Urrego case which found systematic discrimination against LGBTQ students in the Colombian school system and ordered the Ministry of Education to design and implement a nationwide prevention policy; authored a ground-breaking decision that ordered the Colombian National Registry Office to introduce modifications to the birth certificate format to allow the proper inscription of adopted children of same-sex couples; cowrote a landmark decision that ordered the Colombian government to guarantee that victims of sexual violence related to the armed conflict have safe and proper access to sexual and reproductive services, including abortion; worked effectively with a team of ten law clerks organized by

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Junior Attorney

Women´s Link Worldwide

Sep 2011 - Aug 2014 (3 years)

• Coauthored an abortion handbook as a technical education tool for 4000 judges, lawyers and activists where all the judicial and legal rules related to the right to a safe abortion were compiled; lead the Gender and Justice Observatory, a judicial data base that offers complete abstracts and analysis of over 200 court decisions from 20 countries on sexual and reproductive rights; joined a three-persons team located in Spain and Colombia in charge of the Gender Justice Uncovered Awards, an annual event design to highlight the worst and best judicial decisions around the world related to sexual and reproductive rights for which I curated 50 submissions from 15 countries; coordinated a mentoring program where I trained 80 judges, lawyers and

Junior Researcher

Dejusticia

Aug 2009 - Mar 2010 (8 months)

• Coauthored a report sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme to analyze the impunity levels over crimes committed against union leaders for which I conducted 14 semi-structured interviews with human rights defenders and public attorneys and reviewed 50 decisions from 11 criminal judges of Bogotá, Cali, and Medellín

Junior Law Clerk for Justice Mauricio González Cuervo

Corte Constitucional de Colombia

Sep 2007 - Mar 2009 (1 year 7 months)

• Collaborated in drafting the decision by which the Court ordered the Colombian Administrative Judicial Authority to implement a nationwide reform to the physical infrastructure of the judicial system to adequate it to the needs of the population who experience some form of disability; supervised the internship program at Justice Gonzalez’s chamber and trained 22 students through a trainee program of two four-hour sessions that I designed based on methodologies used in the Pubic Interest Clinic of the Universidad de los Andes.

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