Carmen Alcázar

Carmen Alcázar Castillo is a political scientist, feminist, women's rights activist and mexican Wikipedian. In 2021, she received the Wikimedian of the Year honorable mention by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales at Wikimania.

Biography
Carmen Alcázar holds a degree in political science and public administration. She has been a Wikipedia editor since 2011.

Wikimedia work
In 2015, Alcazar created the Editatona project to decrease the existing gender gap in the Wikipedia encyclopedia, since then the project has been replicated in 10 Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. She served as president of Wikimedia Mexico from 2018 to 2021, when she became its executive director.

Acknowledgements
In 2021 she received the Hermila Galindo medal from the Mexico City Congress, for her work in the visibility of women on the Internet, as well as the Hermila Galindo award given by the Mexico City Human Rights Commission.