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.
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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.
Victoria de la Mora Vizcaíno
When Victoria de la Mora Vizcaíno (1891-1974) was granted a Diploma as Chemical Engineer, Assayer, Metallurgist and Metallographer in 1917at the Jalisco Free School of Engineering, it was the first engineering degree awarded to any woman in Mexico.
Vilma Espín
One of the first women in Cuba to study chemical engineering, graduating from the Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Vilma Lucila Espín Guillois was mostly known as one of the leading Cuban revolutionaries, feminist, and wife of Raúl Castro.