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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.

Tamara Bunke

Jewish Argentine revolutionary and guerilla fighter

Myrna Mack

Myrna Mack Chang was a respected Guatemalan anthropologist who was stabbed to death in 1990 by members of the Guatemalan military due to her criticism of the government’s treatment of the indigenous Maya and human rights abuses.

Dr Sarah Stewart

Sarah Stewart was a Mexican-American researcher renowned for her pioneering work in viral oncology research. She was the first to demonstrate the transmission of cancer-causing viruses from one animal to another.

Gregoria Apaza

Gregoria Apaza was an indigenous Aymara/Aimara leader in Bolivia. In 1781, she, along with her brother Julian Apaza (Tupac Katari) and sister-in-law Bartolina Sisa, played key roles in the indigenous uprising against Spanish colonial rule in Bolivia. They besieged La Paz and Sorata but were defeated and executed.