Poulette Celene Hernández

Poulette Celene Hernández (25 January 1888) is a woman human rights defender, lawyer and communications specialist from the coast of Chiapas. Since 2013, she has been working at the Digna Ochoa Human Rights Centre, based in the city of Tonalá, where she has been involved in the defence, promotion and enforcement of human rights in communities in the region.

Throughout her career, she has provided support to women victims of gender-based violence, contributing to access to justice, collaborative women movements strengthening and visibility of violence faced by women in community and rural contexts.

She is the founder of the Red de Mujeres de la Costa en Rebeldía (Network of Women of the Coast in Rebellion), a space for women defenders to come together and promote training and collective action processes to defend women's rights and build more just, violence-free territories.

Her work has focused on comprehensive support for women, the defence of human rights and the strengthening of community capacities. Currently, her interests lie on digital security with a gender and human rights perspective, and promoting tools and strategies for the protection of women defenders, organisations and communities against digital risks and contexts of violence.