Javiera Toro Cáceres is the eldest of four siblings and the granddaughter of Alicia Vega País, a historic human rights defender during the dictatorship. She studied law at the University of Chile, where she stood out as a leader during the student protests of 2006 and 2011. In 2015, she earned her law degree and then completed a master's degree in law with a specialization in public law at the University of Chile.
She served as Minister of National Assets until August 2023. She was also part of the Nodo XXI Foundation, researching issues of social rights and educational law, and practiced law in private law firms.
She was the first president of the Comunes Party between January 2019 and July 2020, a role in which she experienced one of the most significant moments in her career as a political leader, in November 2019, when she became one of the signatories of the Peace Agreement, which enabled an unprecedented democratic process and the drafting of a new Constitution for Chile.
