Dr Wanda Díaz-Merced
Puerto Rican scientist who created ‘sonification’ software that allowed her to participate fully in astrophysical endeavors despite vision loss
Puerto Rican scientist who created ‘sonification’ software that allowed her to participate fully in astrophysical endeavors despite vision loss
Mexican art critic, art historian, docent, and curator.
Carla Juaçaba is one of ten architects commissioned to design and build one of the ten Vatican Chapels for the “Holy See Pavilion” exhibition curated by Francesco Dal Co, which was the debut of Vatican City at the Venice Architecture Bienniale (2018).
Heidi Bonilla de Cienfuegos is the co-founder and Director of B100arquitectos in San Salvador, El Salvador (2007), a former bioclimatic architecture professor at the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas in San Salvador, and the first architect in El Salvador to earn the following accreditations related to sustainable construction: LEED AP BD+C (2018), True Advisor (2020), Living Future Accredited professional (2021), Arc Performance Pro (2021), and LEED Green Rater (2021).
Margot Taulé was the first woman registered as an architect and engineer in the Dominican Republic (1948).
Born in 1921 in Havana, Cuba, María Margarita Egaña Fernández was in the first generation of women to work as architects in Cuba.
Costa Rican architect
Esther Josefina Ayuso is considered the first professional woman architect in Belize.
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.
Honduran architect