Florencia Ruiz Mendoza is from Mexico City. She has been and advocate against forced disappearance for almost twenty years. She initiated her career documenting state crimes for the Historical Report Qué no Vuelva a Suceder, acknowledged as Patrimony of Memory.

She collaborated for the Historical Memory Project at John Jay College/CUNY, the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Latin American Network at the International Sites of Conscience.
Her literary work has been featured in Los Acentos Review and Restless Immigrants Workshop Blog. She is a reader of color for The Masters Review. She holds a BA in History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and was a Columbia University Human Rights Advocate in 2009 and an OHMA Summer Fellow in 2010.

As an OHMA alumnus and Oral Historian, she lectures in Mexico on Oral History and Human Rights.