Zara Snapp is the director of Instituto RIA, a Mexican civil society organization that undertakes research and advocacy within a social justice, development and peace building framework. For the past decade, she has engaged deeply in the legislative and judicial drug policy reform processes in Mexico and at an international level. Zara has a masters in public policy from Harvard University where she was a Public Service Fellow and a political science degree from the University of Colorado. She is the author of Drugs Dictionary and numerous articles and book chapters.