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Bernardino began her fight for women's rights as one of the leaders of Acción Feminista, an organization she became involved in while she was still living in the Dominican Republic. In 1935, she moved to Washington D.C. to work for the IACW. She maintained connections with Dominican Republic stayed away for several years because of her initial opposition to Trujillo's dictatorship. By the 1940s, she was serving as the nation's official representative to the IACW, becoming vice chair and then chair of the commission. She attended conferences as a representative of the Dominican Republic, including the 1945 San Francisco Conference, where she signed the original charter for the United Nations.

As her career progressed, Bernardino continued to work at the UN in many different capacities. Not only did she participate in fifteen General Assemblies as the Dominican Republic's permanent representative (appointed in 1950), she also held many different leadership positions within the organization. She was elected vice president of the Commission of the Status of Women in 1951 and president of the commission 1953. She was also the first vice president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the first vice president of UNICEF. Later, Bernardino extended the scope of her work to include giving lectures at universities, writing a biographical archive of influential American women, and creating the Fundación Bernardino which would continue the fight for women's rights in the Dominican Republic after her death.

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Irene Aloha Wright (December 19, 1879 – April 6, 1972) was an American journalist and historian who wrote several books on colonial history in the Caribbean. Born in Colorado, she lived in Mexico, Cuba, and Spain, and was a distinguished writer and scholar.

Irene Aloha Wright was born on December 19, 1879, in Lake City, Colorado, to parents Henry Edward Wright and Letitia O. Wright. After her father sold his interest in a gold mine, the family settled in Ouray, Colorado. In 1888, Ed Wright built the Wright Opera House in Ouray. When Wright was fifteen her father died and her mother sent her to school at the Virginia College for Young Ladies in Roanoke, Virginia. Instead of returning to Roanoke for a second year of school, she traveled south to Mexico City where she found work as a governess for the vice-president of Mexico. She also gave English lessons and translated guidebooks for the local museums.

After graduation she took her mother with her to Cuba, where she worked as she was a writer for the Havana Post from 1904 to 1905. When Wright left the Post she became a city editor for the Havana Telegraph, a position she held for three years. The next year, she purchased the The Cuba Magazine, a weekly politics and culture magazine for American readers which she owned until 1914. In 1910, Wright published her first book, Cuba, a contemporary account of the island.

In 1914, she moved to Seville, gave up journalism, and focused instead on archival research at the Archives of the Indies. She spent the next two decades in Spain where she translated and edited over 100,000 colonial documents. In 1916, she published The Early History of Cuba, 1492–1586, the first modern history of the early Caribbean that relied almost entirely on primary sources.

During her stay in Spain she published several additional books, including Historia documentada de San Cristo, bal de la Habana en el siglo XVI (Documented History of Havana in the Sixteenth Century)(1927) and Documents concerning English voyages to the Spanish main, 1569–1580 (1932). She also compiled a variety of reports on the early Dutch slave trade for the Dutch government. Spain and Britain also commissioned her to research and translate documents relating to their country's colonial history. The John B. Stetson family hired her to create an archive of Spanish documents covering the settlement of Florida by Spanish conquistadors. This archive remains "the most important and frequently cited collection of papers regarding the Spanish occupation of Florida to this day outside of the archive in Seville." In 1949, she published one of her last books, English Voyages to the Caribbean, 1580–1592.

From 1932 to 1936, Wright also served as a representative of the Library of Congress in Spain. In 1936, the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War forced her to leave Spain with her mother and adopted daughter. She went to work for the United States National Archives as an associate archivist, a job she held for two years. Wright subsequently became a Foreign affairs specialist for the Department of State, and served as chief of its cultural relations division for Latin America and as an attestation officer. She served in that capacity until 1952. She died on April 6, 1972 at the age of

Wright received awards from the governments of Spain and Cuba. She was awarded gold medals from both the Havana Academy of History and the Society of Woman Geographers. In 1953, Wright became president of the Society of Woman Geographers. In addition, she was a member of the Royal Historical Society of England and the Royal Historical Society of the Netherlands.

Early Life
Irene Wright was born on December 19, 1879, in Lake City, Colorado, to parents Henri Edward Wright and Letitia O. Wright. When she was sixteen, she left Lake City, and traveled to Mexico with $300 (equivalent to $9,200 in 2019). She lived in Mexico for three years where she studied Spanish and history while working as an English teacher for a wealthy Mexican family. In 1898, she returned to the U.S. and graduated from the Virginia college for young ladies in Roanoke, Virginia, and from Stanford University six years later. [She lived in Mexico for three years before returning home and finishing school at Roanoke in 1898.-CUT] She then attended Stanford University and graduated in 1904 with a Bachelor of Arts in history.

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Edith Mary Irvine-Rivera was a U.S. Methodist missionary and activist in the temperance movement who spent the majority of her life proselytizing in Puerto Rico. In 1907 she became engaged to Pedro Amado Rivera whom she had met while he attended the National University Law School and she worked as a stenographer for the YMCA in Washington DC. [fn] That June she moved to Arecibo, Puerto Rico to marry and live with Rivera [fn] Washington Herald article]. She regularly wrote articles for The Continent, The Christian Republic, The Epworth Herald, and the Bulletin of the Pan American Union through the 1910s and 1920s [fn]. In the mid-1920s she became the managing editor of the Porto Rican Health Review [fn]. Later in her life she published two travel guides, on on Puerto Rico and the other the Virgin Islands, both called Guides of Distinction. Her autobiography, Adventures for a Better World, was published in 1968. [fn]