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Omara Portuondo

Grammy-winning Cuban singer and dancer. She co-founded the popular vocal group Cuarteto d’Aida and has collaborated with various influential Cuban musicians throughout her extensive career.

Laudelina de Campos Melo

Afro-Brazilian activist and labor organizer.

Dolores Cacuango

Pioneering advocate for indigenous and farmer rights in Ecuador, who played a key role in the early Ecuadorian feminist movement from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Felipa Graciela Pérez y Gutiérrez

Celebrated Cuban-American singer known for her enchanting performances in Cuban music and Latin jazz.

Beatrice Worsley

Pioneering Canadian computer scientist.

Bertha Lutz

Notable Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat and played a key role in the Pan-American feminist and human rights movements. Her efforts were crucial in achieving women’s suffrage in Brazil.

Amalia Hernández

Prominent Mexican ballet choreographer renowned for founding the Ballet Folklórico de México.

Distinguished Chilean astronomer; the first woman to receive Chile’s National Prize for Exact Sciences, the first female astrophysics doctorate from Princeton University, and the first woman president of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.

Luisa Capetillo

Iconic figure in Puerto Rico’s labor history. An anarchist writer and relentless activist, she championed labor rights, women’s empowerment, free love, and human emancipation.