Gabriela Valentín Díaz

Staff Attorney

Region: United States and Global

Gabriela’s work focuses on transnational litigation strategies on behalf of communities harmed by corporate impunity. She represented campesinos from the Bajo Aguan region of Honduras in Doe v. IFC, a case that settled and marked the first time any international financial institution agreed to provide a remedy to end a lawsuit brought by an injured community. Gabriela also serves as counsel in Doe v. Chiquita Brands International, forming part of the team that secured a $38 million settlement on behalf of victims of paramilitary violence. The historic Chiquita verdict was the first time that a U.S. jury held a major U.S. corporation liable for complicity in serious human rights abuses abroad.

Gabriela is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Law where she was an Articles and Comments Editor of the Inter-American Law Review and a Human Rights Clinic Intern and Fellow. At Miami Law, she supported equity advancement initiatives for Latine and first-generation law students and co-founded the First-Generation Law Association at Miami Law. During that time, she also interned for the Miami-Dade Public Defender and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.

In her spare time, you can find her at the movies or outdoors.

Gabriela is admitted to practice law in Florida and the District of Columbia.