Katie Angell
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Katie Angell is an Associate Editor at Encyclopedia Britannica, where she covers a broad range of topics related to Latin America, with a particular focus on Latin American politics, Indigenous peoples, regional history, and economics. She holds an MA in Latin American Studies from Vanderbilt University and an MA in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh, where she is also completing her PhD in Political Science. She earned her BA in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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Rigoberta MenchĂș is a Guatemalan Indigenous-rights activist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1992 for her efforts to promote social justice and reconciliation in Guatemala. A member of the Kâicheâ Maya people, MenchĂș emerged as an internationally recognized advocate for IndigenousâŠ
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