Sharon Bissell Sotelo

Sharon Bissell Sotelo is Director for the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation’s Mexico Office, which provides grants to civil society organizations in Population and Reproductive Health, Human Rights, and Migration. She has been with MacArthur since 2001. She is the Board Chair of the Funders Network for Population and Reproductive Health and Rights, a donor affinity group that facilitates the exchange of information, strategies and analysis for grantmakers that focus on these issues. Before joining MacArthur, Sharon worked at a leading reproductive rights organization in Mexico, as a consultant for numerous Mexican organizations, and at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. She holds a Master’s from Tulane University, a Bachelor’s from Whitman College, and diploma courses in gender, reproductive health and human rights from El Colegio de México and the Universidad Tecnológica de Monterrey. She has lived in Mexico since 1995, and speaks English, Spanish and French.