María Fernanda Sánchez

María Fernanda Sánchez is co-founder and deputy director of Estudio Urbano, a firm located in Guatemala City, Guatemala, that provides architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture services rooted in cultural continuity and human-scale environments.

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Dr Lily Newton

In 1928 Newton was appointed lecturer in Botany at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth, where she was a member of staff until her retirement in 1958. She was promoted to Professor and Head of Department in 1930.

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Dr Balbina Martínez Caviró

Spanish professor, historian, and academic who concentrated in research regarding Mudejar art, ceramics, and the city of Toledo at large (La Virgen del Prado y la cerámica de Talavera de la Reina, La loza dorada).

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María Luisa Dehesa

María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías is considered the first woman in Mexico and Latin America to earn a diploma in architecture (1933–1937). She was also the first woman to obtain a license to practice architecture in Mexico (c. 1939).

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