Micaela Hierro Dori

Micaela Hierro Dori (born 22 December 1979, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentinean internationalist specialized in youth leadership, civil society and Cuban democratization process.
Social and political entrepreneur
In 1997 she wrote a project to carry out an essay contest about Jose de San Martin's life at her school in Yapeyu, Corrientes and submitted to the Province's governor. With only 17 years old she convinced "Tato" Romero Feris during his visit to the town to finance the project. The award was a cultural trip to Spain and France to 8 students from Colegio Maipu, those who had won the contest. She participated as one of the founder of the Youth Commission at the European Club in Buenos Aires in 2004 was selected as responsible of International Relations. She was one of the organizer of the youth summit of the Iberoamerican Summit in 2006. She founded the Research and Training Center for Social Entrepreneurs in 2007.
Studies and scholarships
In 1995 she won her first scholarship "Ruta Quetzal" for her essay about the Inca's Empire and visited Spain, Peru and Ecuador. Between 2010 and 2011 studied a Master degree in Political Science at the Pontific Catholic University of Chile with a scholarship of Konrad Adenauer Foundation. In 2013 was a DAAD scholarship to study at the University of Passau as part of the Program Public Policy and Good Governance.
Activism
She founded the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy in Cuba in 2012 as a result of her participation at the Global Competitiveness Leadership Program in Georgetown University and receive a grant of the National Endowment for Democracy since 2013. She lead a group of young politician, social entrepreneurs and human rights activists until in December 2014 formally founded the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy (JuventudLAC). Since then she had reported to be threaten and persecuted for her work supporting Cuban activist as Rosa Maria Paya, daughter of Oswaldo Paya Sardiñas, head of the Christian Liberation Movement. In April 2015, was detained and interrogated upon her arrival in Panama, where she attended the Civil Society Forum of the Summit of the Americas. At the summit, she was acting as a coordinator of a group of 50 young people, members of JuventudLAC, as a result of its agreement with Young American Business Trust, organizer of the Youth Forum at the Panama Summit. In December 2015 during the III Youth and Democracy Forum celebrated in San Jose, Costa Rica, she was succeeded by Rosa Maria Paya and finally elected as Honorary President of the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy.
Journalism
She writes her blog "Perspectivas Latinoamericanas" since 2007. And also she writes as political analyst at the Cuban Program at the Center for Openness and Development of Latin America (CADAL) since 2012. She also writes for Panam Post and other digital media in the latinoamerican region.

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