Emma Teresa Armendáriz
Mexican playwright, essayist, and fiction writer
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María Luisa Dehesa
María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías is considered the first woman in Mexico and Latin America to earn a diploma in architecture (1933–1937). She was also the first woman to obtain a license to practice architecture in Mexico (c. 1939).
Hildegard Vasquez
Hildegard Vasquez is the founder and head architect of Hache Uve, an architectural firm in Panama City, Panama (1998–).
Dorel Ramirez
Dorel Ramirez is the founder and lead architect of Dorel Ramirez Arquitectos, an architectural firm in Managua, Nicaragua
Gertie Yolanda Besosa Silva
Considered the first Puerto Rican woman to earn a diploma in architecture (1945), she was also the first Puerto Rican woman to obtain a license to practice architecture and work as a professional architect in Puerto Rico (1945).
Peggy Bawoek
Architect in Suriname
Athala Ojeda Manjra
The first woman architect authorized to work in Fes, Morocco.
Lucha Reyes
Mexican singer Lucha Reyes made a name for herself in the male-dominated cancion ranchera style
Arinda da Cruz Sobral
Arinda da Cruz Sobral was the first woman to graduate with a diploma in architecture from the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeirol (c. 1914)
Dr Dora Riedel
Dora Riedel was the first woman to earn a diploma in architecture in Chile and in South America (1930), and one of the first women to obtain a license to professionally practice architecture in Chile.