Sara García Gross
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Sara García Gross | |
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| Born | 1986 (age 39–40) Chalchuapa, El Salvador |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Activist |
| Awards | Simone de Beauvoir Prize (2019) |
Sara García Gross (born 1986) is a Salvadoran activist, psychologist,[1] feminist, and human rights defender. She is the coordinator of political advocacy for the Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Therapeutic, Ethical, and Eugenic Abortion, founded in 2009. She is also a member of the Salvadoran Network of Women Human Rights Defenders. In 2019, she was presented with France's Simone de Beauvoir Prize for her work promoting abortion rights.
Sara García Gross was born in Chalchuapa in 1986,[2] living through the 1979–1992 Salvadoran Civil War as a child.[1] She earned a degree from the Central American University in psychology. She specialized in gender studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. As of June 2019, she resides in Buenos Aires, where she is pursuing a master's degree in Human Rights and Democratization for Latin America and the Caribbean at the National University of General San Martín.[1]
