Luis Abolafia joined ABA ROLI in November 2020 as a Senior Program Manager in the Latin American and Caribbean Division. Since June 2023, Abolafia is the Senior Technical Advisor on Gender, Equity, Safeguarding, and Social Inclusion for ABA ROLI's Global Programs Division. Abolafia has over 15 years of experience working on human rights, democracy, gender, and LGBTQI issues across the world. Before joining ABA ROLI, he served as Director of International Programs at the LGBTQ Victory Institute. There, Luis oversaw several initiatives focused on increasing civic and political engagement of LGBTQ people in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Balkans, Southern Africa, and India. Prior to this, he coordinated several projects focused on women’s economic empowerment and migration in Colombia, with Asociación Candelita from Spain. He has also worked for Fundación Triángulo in Spain, overseeing human rights and advocacy projects working with LGBTQI communities across Latin America. Luis graduated from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) with a Law degree and holds a Master’s degree in Applied Human Rights from the University of York (UK). He is fluent in English and Spanish and has an intermediate command of French.
Luis Abolafia
Senior Technical Advisor on Gender, Equity, Safeguarding, and Social Inclusion
Technical Areas:
Gender & Social Inclusion
Human Rights
Region:
Strategic Programs