Francia Márquez-Mina
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About
Colombian human rights and environmental activist and lawyer who's known as the 13th and current vice president of Colombia. After taking office, she became the first Afro-Colombian vice president in the country's history.
Before Fame
She first became an activist at the age of 13 when construction of a dam threatened her community. She is an agricultural technician graduate from the National Learning Service of Colombia. In the year 2020, she obtained a law degree from the University of Santiago de Cali.
Trivia
In the year 2018, she was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work to stop illegal gold mining in her community of La Toma.
Family Life
Her father is a miner and her mother is a farmer and midwife.
Associated With
She is the second woman to be Vice President of Colombia after Marta Lucía Ramírez.
