Katya Echazarreta
Mexican-American electrical engineer at NASA
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Rosario Castellanos
One of Mexico’s leading literary voices in the twentieth century
Victoria de la Mora Vizcaíno
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.
María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías
María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías was the first Mexican woman to receive a degree in architecture, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Academia de San Carlos (the National School of Architecture) in 1937.
Dolores del Río
Mexican actress Dolores del Río is considered the first Latin American woman to become a major film star, with a career that lasted from the 1920s Hollywood silent films into the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the ‘40s and ‘50s and later expanding into television and theater.
Gabriela Brimmer
Mexican writer and disability rights activist
Conchita Fabet
Mexican poet whose poems were included in an anthology of poets from Sonora.
Guadalupe Curiel Defossé
Mexican researcher, professor, and historian.
Rosa Carreto
Mexican poet and playwright