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State Alumni Member of the Month

Adriana Labardini Inzunza, from Mexico, was selected as the U.S. Department of State’s State Alumni Member of the Month for July 2011.  Since 1990, she has had the opportunity to participate in several exchange programs in the United States. She studied at Columbia University’s Law School as a Fulbright student from 1990 to 1991, completed a Humphrey Fellowship at the University of North Carolina in 2003, and three years later, she participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) and learned about non-governmental organization management and development. 

Labardini’s fellowship in the United States was a life changing experience “that allowed her to professionally reinvent herself, the way she viewed the world, and the way she viewed herself and the role she would play.”  She explains, “After being a Humphrey Fellow, sound notions of leadership, volunteerism and empowerment are engraved in our minds, in our hearts and in our will.” 

Eager to apply her lessons-learned upon her return to Mexico, Labardini started a public interest law firm for consumers; and also founded Mexico’s first advocacy non-profit organization, ALCONSUMIDOR, A.C., and a research center on consumption and consumers (Centro de Investigación del Consumo y el Consumidor, A.C.).  Her advocacy work was instrumental in the establishment by Mexico’s Congress of procedural rules on introducing consumer class actions. 

Labardini’s initiatives have elevated the consumer-protection agenda at the federal level in Mexico ALCONSUMIDOR,; which is devoted to assisting, informing, and empowering users of services such as energy and telecommunications, acts as watchdog for pro-competition law enforcement, rules, and policymaking.  As the organization’s executive director, she spearheaded the first International Congress on Class Action Regimes for Consumers and co-authored a bill on class-action legislation in her country.  She has also encouraged Mexican law schools to include courses on consumer protection law, class action litigation, ethics and corporate behavior, public interest law, and pro bono requirements.

Her professional background includes a wide range of experiences ranging from being a partner in the Sanchez -Mejorada y Velasco law firm to the chief of staff at the Mexican Federal Telecommunications Commission (COFETEL).

She is a founding member of the Fulbright-García Robles Mexican Alumni Association; serving as secretary of the association’s first board of directors from 1996 to 1999. Labardini is also an active member of the Mexican Fulbright Commission’s (COMEXUS) selection committee. In this role, she interviews Fulbright and Humphrey candidates from Mexico.

“The Humphrey program is immensely rich because of its fellows, its host universities and faculty, its combination of academics, professional affiliation activities, networking and building understanding among nations and cultures. But mainly, it is rich because it is a two-way street. Fellows learn and fellows teach, fellows receive and give,” Labardini said. Clearly, through her leadership and advocacy work, she has applied this notion of learning, teaching, receiving and giving to make the most of the knowledge and skills she honed during her exchange programs.

She collaborated in a community project in Oaxaca, Mexico with Catalina Sánchez, another U.S. Department of State alumna from the Voluntary Visitors program “Pathways to Prosperity: Women and Entrepreneurship.” Given Lombardi’s involvement in this arena, she had the opportunity to participate in a conference for women entrepreneurs where Secretary of State Hilary Clinton delivered an address.

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