Matilde Zimmermann (born September 6, 1943) is an American author and professor who ran as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Vice President in 1980.

The party had three different presidential candidates that year, Andrew Pulley, Richard H. Congress and Clifton DeBerry depending on the state.

Zimmermann (PhD History 1998) is the Residente Director of SLC (Sarah Lawrence College) in Cuba and is a faculty member in History and Global Studies at SLC.

She has been based in Havana the last two fall semesters (2003 and 2004) as director of SLC in Cuba.

She once said that the argument that Cubans were living under a dictatorship was "American propaganda".