Lottie Cunningham Wren | |
Birth Date: | 29 September 1959 |
Birth Place: | Bilwaskarma, Nicaragua |
use both this parameter and |birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) -->| death_place = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Indigenous rights lawyer| years_active = | employer = | organization = Center for Justice and Human Rights of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua| known_for = | awards = Right Livelihood Award (2020)| website = }}Lottie Cunningham Wren (born 1959) is a Miskito Nicaraguan lawyer, environmentalist, and Indigenous rights activist from Nicaragua.[1]
Cunningham was born on September 29, 1959, in the village of Bilwaskarma, located on the Rio Coco, Nicaragua.[1]
Cunningham founded the Center for Justice and Human Rights of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.[2] In 2019 she received the Paul K. Feyerabend Award,[3] and in 2020 she received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize," for her work defending the rights of Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples to their land.[4]