Ana María Simo
Cofounded by Cuban activist and playwright Ana Maria Simo in 1992, the Lesbian Avengers used direct-action tactics (nonviolent demonstrations such as marches and kiss-ins) to increase lesbian visibility.
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Cecilia Barra
One of the first female chemical engineering graduates from the Escuela de Ingeniería Química, in Valparaiso in 1955
Guillermina Castro
Mexican chemical engineer who worked in pharmaceuticals
Inés Santa María
Chilean chemical engineer who researched marine pollutants and how to remove them into at least the late 1980s.
Clara González
Panamanian feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist Clara González became the first Panamanian woman to earn her Bachelor of Law Degree in 1922, the same year she established the Partido Nacional Feminista (PNF, National Feminist Party) to campaign for women’s rights and suffrage.
María De La Luz Ostalé
One of the first female chemical engineering graduates from the Escuela de Ingeniería Química, in Valparaiso, Chile in 1955
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
Mary Maria Burton
Argentine-South African human rights activist
Rebeca Uribe Bone
Colombia’s first female chemical engineer
Noemy Chaverra
Colombia’s first chemical engineer of African descent, graduating from the University of Antioquia in 1951