Matilde Lindo

Matilde Lindo Crisanto (7 June 1954 – 20 January 2013) was a Nicaraguan feminist and activist.[1]

Matilde Lindo Crisanto
Born7 June 1954
Bilwi
DiedJanuary 20, 2013(2013-01-20) (aged 58)
Managua
Nationality Nicaragua
OccupationActivist

Biography

Matilde Lindo Crisanto was born on 7 June 1954 in Bilwi, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua, the second of three children (two daughters and a son). Her parents were Harold Lindo, a Creole, and Imogene Crisanto, a Miskito, making her a Garifuna. Though Creole English was her native tongue, she could speak Spanish and some Miskito. After finishing high school, she entered the normal school in Wapsum to become a teacher. Upon graduation, she began work in rural Miskit and Sumo people. She would attend University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast for a degree in Law but would not complete this degree.[1] In 1976, she traveled to Cuba for a two-year sociology course.[2]

In 1979, Lindo moved to Bilwi to work as a teacher for the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources and became a community leader through the Moravian Church. A decade later in 1889, she began to become involved in Feminism and participated a meeting about gender and attended the first cycle of feminist training. She shortly became one of the outstanding members of the Women's movement on the Caribbean coast.[1] In September 1995, she participated in the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.[3] Lindo was part of the Women's Network Against Violence and in 2003 moved to Managua to join its Coordinating Commission.[4]

On 13 January 2013, at the age of 59, Matilde died of a heart attack in Managua.[4][5]

Citations
  1. La Boletina: Matilde Lindo Crisanto: mujer, negra, cristiana, feminista
  2. Shelly, Grabe, June 2011
  3. Merill, Jessica; Harrington, Elaine. "WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS TO HOST BEIJING CONFERENCE DISCUSSION AT UVM". uvm.edu. University of Vermont. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  4. "fallecimiento de Matilde Lindo". www.movimientoautonomodemujeres.org. Autonomous Movement of Women. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  5. "Organizaciones de mujeres despiden a Matilde Lindo, defensora de los derechos humanos de las mujeres costeñas". cenidh.org. CENIDH.

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