Elena Torres Cuéllar (3 June 1893 – 19 October 1970) was a leading Mexican revolutionary, feminist, progressive educator and writer.

She devoted considerable efforts to improving education in Mexico, especially by facilitating the training of primary school teachers in rural areas.

She also taught at the Silao Elementary School and the Casa del Obrero Mundial (The House of the World Worker),[4] an anarchist-union organization which had branches throughout Mexico.

She collaborated with the governor of Yucatán Salvador Alvarado who provided support for the second feminist congress in November 1916 at which a wide range of topics were discussed, including employment, education, suffrage, birth control and divorce.

[4][8] In 1918, she associated with Trotsky's Third International, joining Felipe Carrillo Puerto in establishing Yucatán's Socialist Party in which she campaigned for women's rights.

In state run schools, a free breakfast program was organized in that year, with Torres directing the services and even serving many of the meals.

Originally, she was assigned back to the rural teaching mission project but on 17 May 1926 she was appointed chief professor of the Faculty of Letters at the Higher Normal School.

She lost her post in 1927 due to her criticism of Mexican president Plutarco Elías Calles, moving back to the United States and taking a Spanish teaching job at the International School of Missouri.