12 Notable alumni of
Central American University
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Central American University is 3424th in the world, 174th in Latin America, and 1st in Nicaragua by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from Central American University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sheynnis Palacios
- Enrolled in Central American University
- Studied mass communication
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantmodeljournalist
- Biography
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Sheynnis Alondra Palacios Cornejo is a Nicaraguan model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe 2023. Having previously won Miss Nicaragua 2023, she is the first Nicaraguan to win Miss Universe.
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Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo
- Occupations
- politicianLGBTQ rights activist
- Biography
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Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo is a consultant for Comunidad Casabierta, an LGBTI rights organisation in Costa Rica. She is also a former member of the National Assembly of Nicaragua.
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Nora Astorga
- Occupations
- diplomatjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Nora Josefina Astorga Gadea de Jenkins was a Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter in the Nicaraguan Revolution, a lawyer, politician, judge, Vice Minister of Justice, and ambassador to the United Nations from 1986 to 1988.
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Joaquín Cuadra
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joaquín Cuadra Lacayo a scion of Nicaragua's elite, joined the rebel Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in late 1972. After their victory in 1979, he became army chief of staff.
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Reyna Rueda
- Occupations
- politicianmayor
- Biography
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Reyna Rueda Alvarado is a Nicaraguan politician. A member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), she has served as mayor of Managua since 2018.
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María Teresa Blandón
- Occupations
- women's rights activistsociologist
- Biography
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María Teresa Blandón Gadea is a Nicaraguan sociologist, feminist, and former revolutionary guerilla.
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Edmundo Jarquín
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Edmundo Jarquín is a Nicaraguan politician. He was the vice presidential running-mate of Herty Lewites, who was the presidential candidate for the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) in the 2006 elections until his death on 2 July 2006. Jarquín then became the presidential candidate for the MRS. He chose Carlos Mejía Godoy to be his running mate. Jarquin finished in fourth place during the 2006 elections, receiving 6.29% of the vote.
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Lottie Cunningham Wren
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 67)
- Enrolled in Central American University
- In 1994 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Lottie Cunningham Wren is a Miskito Nicaraguan lawyer, environmentalist, and Indigenous rights activist from Nicaragua.
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Arturo McFields
- Occupations
- diplomatjournalist
- Biography
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Arturo McFields Yescas is a former ambassador to the OAS and former member of the Norwegian Peace Corps (FK). Former Alumni of the National Defense University's Security Seminar and the Harvard and HarvardX Leadership course.
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Vidaluz Meneses
- Occupations
- university teacherdeanwriterlibrarianpoet
- Biography
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Vidaluz Meneses Robleto was a Nicaraguan librarian, poet, dean, and social activist.
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Martha Cecilia Ruiz
- Occupations
- writerpoetsocial activistjournalist
- Biography
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Martha Cecilia Ruíz is a Nicaraguan poet, writer, journalist, and Social activist. She directs the El País Azul radio talk show, sits on the board of directors of Nicaraguan Association of Writers (ANIDE) as a member (2015–2018), is a consultant in Communication and Human Rights, and has founded both Three Times Three (Three Women, Three Poets, Three Journalists) and the Forum of Cultural Journalists of Nicaragua (FPCN). Ruiz's writings have been included in numerous anthologies and she has published a single narrative book as of November 2017.
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Karly Gaitán Morales
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Karly Gaitán Morales is a Nicaraguan writer, journalist, and film historian.
