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Mary Maria Burton

Argentine-South African human rights activist

Carolina Muzzilli

Despite dying from tuberculosis when she was just 27, Argentine industrial researcher and social/political activist Carolina Muzzilli improved conditions in work sites in her short life.

Argentine educator, physician, and women’s rights activist María Teresa Ferrari was the first woman to become a university professor in Latin America. She also did groundbreaking research advancing women’s health.

Luisa Valenzuela

Argentine journalist and writer

Perla Szuchmacher

Argentine director, playwright, actor and teacher

Martha Christina Sánchez Rivas

Argentine writer Martha Cristina Sánchez Rivas has published a novel, a book of poetry, and short stories and poems in anthologies.

Ana María Shua

Argentine writer who has published books of microfiction, poetry, short stories, novels, and children’s literature. Her internationally acclaimed work has been translated into several languages.

Irene Selser

Irene Selser belongs to the generation of Latin Americans who lived under the military regimes of the 1960s and 70s. She has worked as a journalist and is the author of novels.

Mónica Szurmuk

Argentine professor and researcher.

Martha Elena Venier

Argentine researcher and academic