Marianne Díaz Hernández

Marianne Díaz Hernández (born in Altagracia de Orituco, on June 4, 1985), is a Venezuelan fiction writer, lawyer and human rights activist.

Marianne Díaz Hernández graduated as a lawyer from Universidad de Carabobo and was a postgraduate degree teacher at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.

As a fiction writer, she published her first book of short stories in 2007, after winning the Contest for Unpublished Authors held by Monte Ávila Editores.

After that, she published the short story book “Aviones de papel”.

In 2011, she won the I National Biennial of Literature Gustavo Pereira with her book “Historias de mujeres perversas”, which was published in 2013 by El perro y la rana.

Between the years of 2016 and 2021 Díaz Hernández worked as a public policy officer at the Latin American NGO based in Chile, Derechos Digitales.

After, she was a fellow of the #KeepItOn campaign at Access Now, where she currently leads the #WhyID campaign.

As a leader of the #WhyID campaign, she developed the Digital Identity Toolkit, a tool that "aims to help digital rights activists working on digital identification systems to navigate the complexities of the topic in an easier way, as well as to provide them with language that might help get them started in campaigning, advocating, educating, and mobilizing around digital ID systems".

She also co-founded the Venezuelan NGO Acceso Libre, which documented and reported on the state of the internet in Venezuela.

She is a researcher and an activist on the intersection of technology and human rights, and was an active member of Creative Commons Venezuela and Global Voices, being part of the latter's board as a representative of their volunteer base between 2018 and 2019.