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Lola Ancira

Mexican writer, editor, and essayist

Antonia Vallejo

One of the first Mexican women to dedicate herself professionally to journalism, she wrote for 75 years

Edna Aponte

Mexican writer, editor, professor, and workshop facilitator.

Guillermina Castro

Mexican chemical engineer who worked in pharmaceuticals

María Morton

Trained as a chemical engineer at the former Tacuba National School of Sciences (ENCQ), now UNAM’s Faculty of Chemistry, graduating in 1926, she went on to work was in the food industries

Elisa Guevara

Mexcian activist who served as a subcomandante in the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the 1980s and early ’90s

Katya Echazarreta

Mexican-American electrical engineer at NASA

Rosario Castellanos

One of Mexico’s leading literary voices in the twentieth century

When Victoria de la Mora Vizcaíno (1891-1974) was granted a Diploma as Chemical Engineer, Assayer, Metallurgist and Metallographer in 1917at the Jalisco Free School of Engineering, it was the first engineering degree awarded to any woman in Mexico.

Amparo Barbra Cisneros

Amparo Barba Cisneros was part of the first generation of chemical engineers from Mexico’s National School of Chemical Sciences, and completed her professional exams in 1943.