Ángela Peralta
Mexican opera singer
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La Malinche
Translator for Hernan Cortes
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican writer and poet
Ana Monterrosso de Lavalleja
Uruguayan freedom fighter, writer and political wife
Ana Betancourt
Cuban women’s rights activist
Francisca Fernández-Hall
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.
Doña Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez
A member of the Mexican elite who fought for independence.
Juana Azurduy de Padilla
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.
Helen Loring Grenfell
American educator, suffragist and penologist
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.