Rebeca Uribe Bone
Colombia’s first female chemical engineer
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Noemy Chaverra
Colombia’s first chemical engineer of African descent, graduating from the University of Antioquia in 1951
Maria Lacerda de Moura
Brazilian feminist and pacifist
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