Natalia Ángel Cabo’s academic and consultancy work focuses on the juncture between law and society to explore evidence and rule of law-based solutions to contemporary challenges. Her work spans areas of constitutional law, access to justice, participatory democracy, local governments, and securing rights for women and persons with disabilities. She was elected to the Colombian Constitutional Court as a Justice in 2022, after serving as an Associate Justice (conjuez) in 2018–19. As a law professor, she was the founder and director (2007–11) of the Action Program for Equality and Social Inclusion (PAIIS), leading the campaign for Colombia’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She studied law at the Universidad de los Andes and at Harvard Law School and was a consultant to many national and international organisations. She is an author as well as an editor of the Latin American Law Review.
