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Athala Ojeda Manjra

The first woman architect authorized to work in Fes, Morocco.

Luz Amorocho

María Luz Amorocho Carreño was the first woman to earn a diploma in architecture in Colombia (1945), graduating from the School of Architecture at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá.

Noemy Chaverra

Colombia’s first chemical engineer of African descent, graduating from the University of Antioquia in 1951

Diana Trujillo

Colombian aerospace engineer

Agripina Montes del Valle

Colombian author and poet

Agripina Restrepo de Norris

Colombian author, editor and activist

Colombian artist and researcher whose work has focused on exploring “how the boundaries between the living and the inanimate, between nature and the artificial, the human and the non-human, become blurred when placed in specific contexts.”