Maria Lacerda de Moura
Brazilian feminist and pacifist
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Maria da Penha
Brazilian survivor of domestic violence who campaigned for legal changes that established stricter sentences for physical offenders, promotd rehabilitation programs for perpetrators, and offered 24-hour police stations and shelters for abused women.
Juana Ramirez
Known as Juana “La Avanzadora,” or Juana “The Advancer” in English for her valiant efforts and leadership on the frontlines of the fight against colonial rule in Venezuela.
Katya Echazarreta
Mexican-American electrical engineer at NASA
Elisa Guevara
Mexcian activist who served as a subcomandante in the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the 1980s and early ’90s
Matilde Hidalgo
Ecuadorian physician, poet, and activist, the first woman to exercise the right to vote in Latin America, and the first to receive a Doctorate in Medicine.
Rosario Castellanos
One of Mexico’s leading literary voices in the twentieth century
Tarsila do Amaral
Brazilian modernist painter
Diana Trujillo
Colombian aerospace engineer
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.