Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican writer and poet
Mexican writer and poet
Uruguayan freedom fighter, writer and political wife
Cuban women’s rights activist
Guatemalan engineer and diplomat Francisca Fernández-Hall Zúñiga was the first woman to graduate from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the first woman to earn an engineering degree in Central America, the first woman to be accepted and attend the Instituto Militar de Engenharia of Brazil, and Guatemala’s first female ambassador.
A member of the Mexican elite who fought for independence.
Juana Azurduy de Padilla was a guerrilla military leader who fought for Bolivian independence, earning the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. She was known for her strong support for and military leadership of the indigenous people of Bolivia, then called Upper Peru.
American educator, suffragist and penologist
American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.
Celebrated Venezuelan pianist, composer and conductor
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez is a Cuban-American mathematician and educator. She was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in Cuba.