Watch María de los Ángeles Estrada speak at National Whistleblower Center’s 2024 National Whistleblower Day celebration on Capitol Hill. María de los Ángeles Estrada is a professor and anti-corruption attorney in Mexico City. She serves as the Executive Director of the Transparency, Anticorruption, and Digitalization Initiative at the School of Social Sciences and Government, and as an Administrative Law and Anti-Corruption professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. She is also a Senior Advisor at National Whistleblower Center.
In her speech, María de los Ángeles Estrada highlights the crucial role that whistleblowers play in anti-corruption work. She discusses her work with deep sea mining, an exploitative and environmentally destructive market that operates with opacity and under-regulation, and the vital role that whistleblowers play in safeguarding the environment when typical recourses of oversight and policy regulation fail.