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Amelia Denis de Icaza

Amelia Denis de Icaza was a prominent Panamanian Romantic poet. She holds the distinction of being the first woman to publish her verses in Panama.

Dora de Acuña

Dora Gómez Bueno de Acuña was a multifaceted personality—a poet, educator, journalist, and radio actress. She acquired her education at the Escuela Normal de Asunción, graduating as a teacher.

Agripina Samper Agudelo

1800s Colombian poet and literary figure

Pancha Carrasco

Costa Rican freedom fighter

María de los Ángeles Cano Márquez was a pioneering Colombian poet, writer, and the country’s first female political leader. Known as the “Labor Flower,” she championed civil rights and workers’ rights, leading strikes and co-founding the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

Alicia Moreau de Justo

Alicia Moreau de Justo was a prominent Argentine physician and politician known for her contributions to feminism and socialism.

Teresa Gisbert

Prominent Bolivian architect, art historian, and researcher, known for her significant contributions to the understanding and preservation of Bolivian cultural heritage and architecture.

Laura Aguilar

Using photography as a tool for the empowerment of her community, Laura Aguilar provided new possibilities for the depictions of subjects and bodies that had traditionally been excluded from art history.

Coco Fusco

Across all the varied mediums in which she works her art interrogates the systems of contemporary power that impact and restrict the lives of people ‘othered’ by the society they live in, whether because of their race or ethnicity, nationality, class position, gender, or the intersections between them.