María Antonietta Berriozábal (née Rodriguez Arredondo; born 1941)[1] is an American activist and author living in San Antonio, Texas.
[2] After high school she worked with The Salvation Army while taking college courses at night at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
[5] Her duties included assisting in composing contracts between and foreign, national, and state governments, as well as concessionaires and exhibitors, while also translating documents arriving from Mexico and Argentina from Spanish to English.
Berriozábal’s public service includes appointments as the U.S. representative to the Inter-American Commission on Women, an agency within the Organization of American States, and as a delegate to the UN's Fourth World Conference in Beijing, China.
[2] She continued to advocates for human rights, cultural diversity, and economic justice in the city of San Antonio, including protesting for nine hours, alongside fifteen students, outside the office of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison for her support on the DREAM Act in 2010.