Cristina Cornejo

In 2018, she was elected as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly for La Libertad Department. She was also appointed Third Secretary of its Board of Directors.

In May 2018, she was elected Vice President for Central America of the Parliamentary Network for Gender Equality. She was also a member of the ParlAmericas Council, a representative body of 22 countries of the Americas and the Caribbean, from 2018 to 2020.

In 2015, she was elected as proprietary deputy for La Libertad Department. During her three-year term, she was a member of the Youth and Sports Commission and the Legislation and Constitutional Points Commission. In the same period, she was a founder of the Young People's Parliamentary Group, the first of its kind in Latin America, and was elected as its first president.

At age 15, Cornejo became a youth leader in La Libertad Department, and in 2009, at 25, she was elected for the first time as an alternate deputy of the Legislative Assembly for the FMLN. She served two consecutive terms, from 2009 to 2012 and from 2012 to 2015.

In 2007, she became a founding member of the Santa Tecla Fútbol Club, an institution that came about at the initiative of former Santa Tecla mayor Oscar Ortiz and local entrepreneurs.

In 2001, she entered Francisco Gavidia University, earning a licentiate in legal science at age 23. In 2006, she was authorized as a lawyer by the Supreme Court of El Salvador. She has made additional studies in politics and government, gender, leadership, and procedural oral techniques.

Cristina Cornejo Amaya (born 10 October 1982) is a Salvadoran lawyer, feminist, and politician of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).

Cristina Cornejo was born on 10 October 1982, the second of three daughters of Manuel de Jesús Cornejo, former FMLN special forces commander with the nom de guerre "Felipito", and Irma Amaya, feminist and first Salvadoran woman president of the Central American Parliament.