the Secretariat of Environment for the State of Mexico. Her work in human rights has led to positions in various government and non government organizations such as president of the Federación Mexicana de Organismos Público de Protección y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos from 1993 to 1995, member of the Comité Directive of the International Ombudsman Institute and vice president of the Federación Iberoamericana del Ombudsman. She has also served as a committee member of the Coordination of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights at the United Nations in Geneva. Currently, Roccatti is the attorney general for the Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (SAGARPA). Most of her academic career has been with the Tec de Monterrey, State of Mexico Campus, where she is a researcher and professor emeritus. Her specialties include human rights, public administration, public policy, government and society and environmental law. She does research with the Human Rights and Justice research group and was the first director of EGAP Gobierno y Política Pública for that campus. Roccatti has also taught classes at the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, the Universidad La Salle and has taught classes in legal theory and human rights at the law school of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México at the graduate level. She collaborated with various national and international publications, writing articles, giving interviews on various topics related to law and human rights. Her publications include Los derechos humanos y la experiencia del Ombudman en México; Coloquio Internacional: Derechos Humanos y Sistemas Comparados de Justicia Juvenil, along with more than 100 articles and essays related to law. Recognition for her work includes the Legion of Honor from the French government for her work in human rights, the Gran Cruz de Honor de Máxima Distinción a la Dignidad Professional in 1999, the León Guzmán Prize from the State of Mexico in 2004 and the Reconocimiento Nacional a la Trayectoria Profesional de Mujeres en Materia de Impartición y Procuración de Justicia en 2004 from INACIPE and the Instituto Nacional de la Mujer. In 2013, UNAM honored her for her professional career in human rights. See also List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty References Mexican people of Italian descent Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni Presidents of the National Human Rights Commission (Mexico) 20th-century