Ofelia Domínguez Navarro

Ofelia Domínguez Navarro (Mataguá, December 9, 1894 – Havana, July 7, 1976) was a Cuban writer, teacher, lawyer, feminist and activist.

As a journalist, Domínguez Navarro supported feminist views while writing for various media in Cuba, and in 1935, became the first woman newspaper director in the country with La Palabra.

The daughter of Florentino Dominguez and Paula Navarro, she was born into a family with revolutionary ideals who were participant activists.

At the conference, she spoke passionately about the rights of illegitimate children and argued for the necessity of paternity testing.

Politically, Domínguez Navarro participated in the movement against the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado, for which she was imprisoned and exiled to Mexico.