(AI translated) Nancy Elizabeth Henriquez James was born in Puerto Cabezas (Bilwi) on August 6, 1962, and is originally from Bilwi. She has four children, is a lawyer, and is an activist for the rights of indigenous peoples of the Caribbean Coast. She is a regional deputy, president, and legal representative of the indigenous political party Yatama. When she was 9 years old, she began her vocation to defend the Miskito people, taking up arms from the age of 11 to defend the rights of her people. She spent 10 years fighting in the mountains. Upon her return, she completed her secondary studies in Bilwi. She then studied for a bachelor's degree in Law and Moraba Theology. Subsequently, she has continued to participate in trainings on the rights of indigenous women. In 1991, she founded AMICA, the Association of Miskito Indigenous Women of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. In 1992, she began seeking alliances with indigenous women from Central America, traveling by bus around the region. Since then, she has continued to travel to build networks and defend the rights of indigenous women in international spaces. She has participated in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues of the United Nations, at the World Conference on Women in Beijing, and is a member of the World March of Women. In 2004, she became the first Indigenous Woman to be Mayor of Puerto Cabezas. In 2022, she was the gender liaison representing the Miskito people in the Mesoamerican Alliance for Forest and Peoples. She currently served as a Miskito indigenous deputy in the National Assembly as a substitute for regional deputy Brooklyn Rivera, who was detained and whose whereabouts are unknown to date.