She also interpreted for the United Nations and served as the Director General of the Alliance of Pan American Round Tables for many years.

Emma Catalina Francisca Guadalupe Encinas Aguayo was born on 24 October 1909 in the village of Mineral de Dolores (es), in the Madera Municipality, of Chihuahua, Mexico.

Her mother gave her money for the training, but Encinas paid her own expenses, by translating aviation magazines and giving English lessons to other pilots.

[4] Then the couple moved to Tehuantepec, where she turned her attention to the Alliance of Pan American Round Tables, a women's organization formed in 1916 to promote cooperation between the people in the Western Hemisphere.

[6] In 1966 at the annual convention, the Alliance agreed that they would promote a Woman of the Year to recognize women who had upheld the tenets of the organization and served as an example for other members.

[11] Gutiérrez Suárez wrote articles for many periodicals in Mexico and was featured in both the Reader's Digest and the Saturday Evening Post.

[6] In addition to her own writing, she translated around 300 articles, books and novels per year[12] as she was fluent in English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

[1] Two years after her death, a bust paid for by the women of the Pan American Round Table was installed at the Mexico City International Airport in the Gallery of the Heroes of World Aviation.