Silvana Andrea del Valle Bustos, a lawyer, is a member of the National Coordination of the Chilean Network against Violence against Women and director of the Law School of the University Academy of Christian Humanism. She has written and spoken out with intensity about the deficiencies in Chilean law that fail to protect women from domestic harm, especially during the COVID quarantine, when such violence greatly increased.
She received her MMEG grant in 2013 while completing her PhD in law at the Washington University in St. Louis.