Leadership

• Rigoberta Menchú (born 1959)

  Guatemalan Quiché Indian whose father, mother, and brother were tortured and murdered by the Guatemalan government. Activist for the rights of Guatemala's indigenous people.

  • 1992 Nobel Prize winner for Peace (see list of Nobel Peace Prize Winners)
  • Brought international attention to the plight of Guatemalan natives with her 1984 autobiography I...Rigoberta Menchú (see list of Noted Social Reformers and Educators)