Matilde Pérez Palacio Carranza (8 September 1913 – 16 August 1992)[1] was a Peruvian educator, journalist and politician.

She attended the Colegio Sagrados Corazones Belén and earned a commercial accountancy diploma.

[2] She later attended the Catholic University, graduating in 1934 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, history and letters.

[2] From 1941 until 1970 she served as director of the Women's Institute of Higher Studies of the Catholic University, and in 1945 founded the university's School of Journalism, serving as its director until 1972, and was a correspondent for several national and overseas newspapers.

[2] After leaving Congress she became a director of the Association of Journalists of Peru, the Human Rights Commission of the Lima Bar Association and a UNESCO representative, and was awarded the Order of the Sun of Peru.