Karen Castrejón Trujillo (born 1 April 1980) is a Mexican lawyer and politician, currently serving as President of the

Ecologist Green Party of Mexico The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (, , PVEM or PVE) is a green political party in Mexico. Founded in 1986, the party is associated with Jorge González Torres and his son Jorge Emilio González Martínez. It has seldom gotten more than 10% of ...

since November 2020. She has also served as Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources under the administration of

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and local deputy to the

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from 2012 to 2015 for the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico. She studied law at the

Autonomous University of Guerrero The Autonomous University of Guerrero (''Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero'' or UAGro) is a public and autonomous institution of secondary education and higher education in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Its main campus is in Chilpancingo, with fa ...

, from which she graduated in 2003, and later obtained a diploma in Environmental Law and Management from the Faculty of Sciences of the

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. Castrejón Trujillo's name appeared on the ballot in the 2024 Senate election in Mexico City as the substitute for Ernestina Godoy on the ''

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'' coalition's two-name formula. Following Godoy's appointment to Claudia Sheinbaum's cabinet, Castrejón assumed her place in the

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for the 66th and 67th Congresses (1 September 2024 to 31 August 2030).

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Living people 1980 births Ecologist Green Party of Mexico politicians 21st-century Mexican women politicians {{DEFAULTSORT:Castrejón Trujillo, Karen Presidents of the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico People from Acapulco Autonomous University of Guerrero alumni Members of the Congress of Guerrero Deputies of the LXV Legislature of Mexico Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)