Myrna Cunningham is a Miskitu feminist and indigenous rights activist and medical doctor from Nicaragua. She has participated in political-social processes linked to the struggle for the rights of women and indigenous peoples in Latin America. She has been coordinator of the Indigenous Chair of the Intercultural Indigenous University. In September 2010, she obtained an Honoris Causa Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), the first time that the UNAM granted such recognition to an indigenous woman. From 2011 to 2013, she served as the Chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She is also the president of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) where she works to advance the rights of indigenous women and knowledge on indigenous peoples and the impacts of climate change. Ms. Cunningham also served as a FAO Special Ambassador for the International Year of Family Farming, adviser to the President of the UN World Conference of Indigenous People, and is a board member of the Global Fund for Women and The Hunger Project. She is currently Chairperson of the Center for Autonomy and Development of Indigenous People (CADPI) and First Vice-President (past President) of the board of the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin American and Caribbean (FILAC), from where she works to advance reproductive rights, environmental justice, knowledge on indigenous peoples and the impacts of climate change.