Our Story
Igualdad 360 was founded on the belief that real change is possible when women support, inspire, and empower one another.
Our story did not begin in a boardroom, but in the halls of CONAVIM and through joint projects within the United Nations. First came Isabel and Jimena, then Violeta and Helene. Each encounter brought experience, commitment, and a friendship that today brings to life a consultancy that works with purpose.
After years of working together, we realized that we didn’t just add strength; we multiplied impact. With a shared vision, intertwined dreams, and countless conversations, we founded Igualdad 360: a space dedicated to transform critical decision-making spaces through a human rights–based, intersectional, and gender-sensitive approach.
We are allies, partners, and co-creators of pathways that transform power towards greater justice
What We Believe in?
We support governments, companies, and organizations in transforming their structures, practices, and relationships to foster more equal and rights-based spaces.
We do this with a strong commitment to human rights, social justice, and an intersectional, feminist perspective.
We dream of a world where equality is not a distant promise but an everyday reality in spaces of decision-making, work, justice systems, education, and community life. We envision ourselves as a leading consultancy in Latin America, recognized for our ability to drive structural change and build bridges among diverse actors.
Our values are at the heart of our practice, acting as ethical and political principles that guide everything we do, from designing strategies to building alliances.
Substantive equality
We do not believe in neutrality. We work to ensure that everyone has the real and effective conditions to exercise their rights, regardless of gender, age, origin, identity, sexual orientation, social status, or any other factor that drives discrimination and limits dignity or full participation.
Intersectionality
We recognize that inequalities intersect. We look at how racism, classism, ableism, gender inequality, and other forms of oppression operate simultaneously.
Radical Inclusion
Opening the door is not enough, we must change the rules of the game. We promote processes where all voices, especially those historically excluded, are heard, integrated, and valued.
Diversity and plurality
There is no single way to inhabit the world. We value diverse knowledge, different paths, and multiple ways of building justice.
Social justice
We are driven by the possibility of creating more equitable structures, where access to well-being, rights, and recognition does not depend on privilege.
Transformative collaboration
We believe in shared processes, collective thinking, and alliances that drive meaningful change with ethical purpose and solid expertise.
Our Approach
We work from a human rights, gender, and intersectional perspective recognizing that inequalities do not exist in isolation; they intersect and deepen when they are not acknowledged or addressed with political will and expertise.
We believe in collaborative methodologies, context-based processes, and sustainable solutions. That’s why we combine:
- Active listening and contextual insight
- Expertise and strategic vision
- Critical reflection and collective action
Every project we work on is a chance to build fairer, more diverse environments that are aware of their role in tackling inequality.
Our team
We are an interdisciplinary team with over 15 years of experience leading and implementing projects with international organizations, government institutions, and companies to drive equality and social change.
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Violeta Zarco
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Violeta co-founded Igualdad 360 with the conviction that the seed of social transformation lies in processes that help people feel free and safe.
Her vision has been shaped by more than fifteen years of experience in the design, management, and evaluation of projects and programs, supporting governments, civil society organizations, and companies across Mexico and Latin America in strengthening their institutional capacities to prevent, address, investigate, and sanction gender-based violence, and to guarantee the sexual and reproductive rights of girls, adolescents, and young women.
From the United Nations System in Mexico, she led strategies to strengthen the criminal justice system from a gender perspective, helping to close gaps in access to justice. She has also worked directly in supporting survivors of gender-based violence through trauma-informed approaches, which have deeply influenced how she designs interventions, builds teams, and facilitates change processes.
She holds an LLM in Gender Studies from El Colegio de México and an LLB in Social Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has also completed studies in Human Rights at the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Forensic Criminology and Legal-Forensic Methodology at the National Institute for Legal Development (INDEJUR), and is certified as a Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY) by the Center for Trauma and Embodiment (CFTE).
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Jimena Vilchis
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Jimena co-founded Igualdad 360 with the conviction that transforming power structures requires a critical, collective, and deeply grounded perspective. She believes in the strength of collaborative work, in the power of technically sound designs with political purpose, and in the capacity of organizations to reinvent themselves through inclusion, diversity, and rights.
Her professional path has woven together strategies, experiences, and alliances across public, private, and multilateral spaces. She has coordinated national public policy processes, designed tools for justice system operators, led organizational diagnostics, developed procedural protocols, and trained institutional and corporate leaderships with an intersectional perspective.
Her expertise spans key areas such as criminal justice, sexual and reproductive rights, childhood, workplace inclusion, and non-discrimination, as well as supporting community initiatives with Indigenous women in contexts of high vulnerability.She has worked with UN agencies, state and federal governments, the private sector, and civil society organizations on designing and implementing regulatory frameworks, training strategies, institutional action plans, and organizational strengthening processes.
Jimena holds a LLB in Law with honors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and an LLM in Human Rights from Universidad Iberoamericana. Her academic focus centers on international human rights law, intersectionality, and gender justice, with particular interest in critically examining the legal frameworks that regulate the lives of women and children. She also holds a certification in Participatory Gender Audits from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and specialized training in the Mexican constitutional protection trial (Amparo).
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Isabel López Padilla
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Isabel co-founded Igualdad 360 with the conviction that real equality is only possible when we transform structures so that the world stops being designed for just a few and becomes truly accessible for everyone.
She has over fourteen years of experience designing and implementing public policies, programs, and legal tools to prevent violence and guarantee access to justice. Her career began in Mexico’s federal government, where she first specialized in the design of legal and policy frameworks addressing serious human rights violations and later led national public policies on the prevention, response, and eradication of gender-based violence. Within the United Nations System, she has coordinated strategies to mainstream gender equality and intersectionality across justice, security, and protection institutions. There, she found her true passion: transforming institutions so they respond more effectively to the realities of those who need them most.
She has a distinguished track record in strengthening the criminal justice system’s capacities, having trained hundreds of justice operators, developed specialized investigation protocols, and supported institutional reform processes. She has represented the Mexican State before international bodies and has direct experience representing victims before the Inter-American Human Rights System. Her commitment to accessibility and inclusive justice has led her to specialize in the rights of persons with disabilities, promoting concrete actions to dismantle legal, cultural, and institutional barriers.
Isabel holds a LLB in Law from Universidad Panamericana and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Columbia University (New York). She also completed a postgraduate specialization in Political, Economic, and Social Sciences at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana). She has undertaken additional training on access to justice for persons with disabilities at Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice and the “Getting to Yes” negotiation program (Harvard method).
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Helene Saadoun
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Helene co-founded Igualdad 360 convinced that to dismantle violence and discrimination, we must dare to confront the systems of oppression and power structures that permeate every corner of society.
Her passion for human rights has grown over more than nine years of experience implementing projects focused on the rights of women and girls, supporting governments, international organizations, and civil society groups in capacity-building and institutional strengthening to promote gender equality, labor rights, and the prevention, response, investigation, and sanction of gender-based violence.
Her career began in international organizations such as INTERPOL and the United Nations, where she specialized in criminal phenomena and gender-sensitive criminal investigation. Since then, she has led diagnostics, developed public policy documents, and designed specialized training programs for the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of crimes, working closely with prosecutors, investigative police, forensic staff, criminal intelligence analysts, and first responders in Mexico.
She found her true calling in opening paths toward justice for all people. This commitment led her to broaden her focus to other areas such as labor justice, climate justice, and responsible business conduct, driving research and institutional strengthening processes to transform structures in favor of human rights.Helene holds al LLM in International Criminal Law from the University of Sussex (United Kingdom) and an LLB in Law from the University of Nantes (France), with specializations in criminal justice, human rights, and public policy.
Violeta co-founded Igualdad 360 with the conviction that the seed of social transformation lies in processes that help people feel free and safe.
Her vision has been shaped by more than fifteen years of experience in the design, management, and evaluation of projects and programs, supporting governments, civil society organizations, and companies across Mexico and Latin America in strengthening their institutional capacities to prevent, address, investigate, and sanction gender-based violence, and to guarantee the sexual and reproductive rights of girls, adolescents, and young women.
From the United Nations System in Mexico, she led strategies to strengthen the criminal justice system from a gender perspective, helping to close gaps in access to justice. She has also worked directly in supporting survivors of gender-based violence through trauma-informed approaches, which have deeply influenced how she designs interventions, builds teams, and facilitates change processes.
She holds an LLM in Gender Studies from El Colegio de México and an LLB in Social Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has also completed studies in Human Rights at the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Forensic Criminology and Legal-Forensic Methodology at the National Institute for Legal Development (INDEJUR), and is certified as a Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator (TCTSY) by the Center for Trauma and Embodiment (CFTE).
Jimena co-founded Igualdad 360 with the conviction that transforming power structures requires a critical, collective, and deeply grounded perspective. She believes in the strength of collaborative work, in the power of technically sound designs with political purpose, and in the capacity of organizations to reinvent themselves through inclusion, diversity, and rights.
Her professional path has woven together strategies, experiences, and alliances across public, private, and multilateral spaces. She has coordinated national public policy processes, designed tools for justice system operators, led organizational diagnostics, developed procedural protocols, and trained institutional and corporate leaderships with an intersectional perspective.
Her expertise spans key areas such as criminal justice, sexual and reproductive rights, childhood, workplace inclusion, and non-discrimination, as well as supporting community initiatives with Indigenous women in contexts of high vulnerability.
She has worked with UN agencies, state and federal governments, the private sector, and civil society organizations on designing and implementing regulatory frameworks, training strategies, institutional action plans, and organizational strengthening processes.
Jimena holds a LLB in Law with honors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and an LLM in Human Rights from Universidad Iberoamericana. Her academic focus centers on international human rights law, intersectionality, and gender justice, with particular interest in critically examining the legal frameworks that regulate the lives of women and children. She also holds a certification in Participatory Gender Audits from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and specialized training in the Mexican constitutional protection trial (Amparo).
Isabel co-founded Igualdad 360 with the conviction that real equality is only possible when we transform structures so that the world stops being designed for just a few and becomes truly accessible for everyone.
She has over fourteen years of experience designing and implementing public policies, programs, and legal tools to prevent violence and guarantee access to justice. Her career began in Mexico’s federal government, where she first specialized in the design of legal and policy frameworks addressing serious human rights violations and later led national public policies on the prevention, response, and eradication of gender-based violence. Within the United Nations System, she has coordinated strategies to mainstream gender equality and intersectionality across justice, security, and protection institutions. There, she found her true passion: transforming institutions so they respond more effectively to the realities of those who need them most.
She has a distinguished track record in strengthening the criminal justice system’s capacities, having trained hundreds of justice operators, developed specialized investigation protocols, and supported institutional reform processes. She has represented the Mexican State before international bodies and has direct experience representing victims before the Inter-American Human Rights System. Her commitment to accessibility and inclusive justice has led her to specialize in the rights of persons with disabilities, promoting concrete actions to dismantle legal, cultural, and institutional barriers.
Isabel holds a LLB in Law from Universidad Panamericana and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Columbia University (New York). She also completed a postgraduate specialization in Political, Economic, and Social Sciences at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana). She has undertaken additional training on access to justice for persons with disabilities at Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice and the “Getting to Yes” negotiation program (Harvard method).
Helene co-founded Igualdad 360 convinced that to dismantle violence and discrimination, we must dare to confront the systems of oppression and power structures that permeate every corner of society.
Her passion for human rights has grown over more than nine years of experience implementing projects focused on the rights of women and girls, supporting governments, international organizations, and civil society groups in capacity-building and institutional strengthening to promote gender equality, labor rights, and the prevention, response, investigation, and sanction of gender-based violence.
Her career began in international organizations such as INTERPOL and the United Nations, where she specialized in criminal phenomena and gender-sensitive criminal investigation. Since then, she has led diagnostics, developed public policy documents, and designed specialized training programs for the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of crimes, working closely with prosecutors, investigative police, forensic staff, criminal intelligence analysts, and first responders in Mexico.
She found her true calling in opening paths toward justice for all people. This commitment led her to broaden her focus to other areas such as labor justice, climate justice, and responsible business conduct, driving research and institutional strengthening processes to transform structures in favor of human rights.
Helene holds al LLM in International Criminal Law from the University of Sussex (United Kingdom) and an LLB in Law from the University of Nantes (France), with specializations in criminal justice, human rights, and public policy.