Cristiana Chamorro is the founder and director of the Fundación Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, a nonprofit organization focusing on projects for the consolidation of reconciliation, peace, and democracy in Nicaragu, freedom of expression, and responses to poverty. She writes on the editorial page for Diario La Prensa and for the agency Servicio Especial de Mujeres, based in Costa Rica. She is on the Board of Directors and Editorial Advisery Board for Diario La Prensa. From 1991 to 1996, Mrs. Chamorro Barrios was an adviser to the President of Nicaragua, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. As president of the Director's Board of Diario La Prensa from 1991 to 1993, she introduced a process of computerization and began the professional modernization of the newspaper. From 1987 to 1993, she was the vice president of the Commission for the Freedom of Expression.