Maria de la Concepción Bona Hernández, Mother Founder (December 6, 1824 – July 2, 1901) was a nursery school teacher and a campaigner for the independence of the Dominican Republic.

From a young age, she showed love for the country and kept up to date with all independence events at all times.

She was a daughter of Ignacio Bona Pérez, one of the signatories of the Manifesto of January 16, 1844, and Juana de Dios Hernández, who was the eldest daughter of Josefa Brea Hernández, wife of the independence leader, Matías Ramón Mella.

Bona grew up in a family fully committed to the patriotic cause that followed the ideas of Juan Pablo Duarte.

Thus it was that together with her cousin, María de Jesús Pina, Isabel Sosa and María Trinidad Sánchez,[3][4] using fine fabrics she made the tricolor flag that was hoisted by the independence supporters in Puerta del Conde on February 27, 1844.