Maryangel García-Ramos Guadiana, EGADE Business School MBA student, received, on March 8th, the 2019 Tec Prize for Women within the framework of International Women’s Day.

The also founder of the Mexican Disabled Women’s Movement won the award in the Transformative Power category, among 18 women and two groups renowned for their track record and contributions in eight areas.

Tec directors handed García-Ramos Guadiana the 'Muliere Amete' trophy, inspired by Kristen Visbal’s work ‘Fearless Girl', during the award ceremony which was held in the La Carreta Pavilion Auditorium at Campus Monterrey.

“This accolade will light the way to stop disabled women from being invisible. May this prize be a platform for our voices to be stronger and so that decisions will no longer be made for us without us,” remarked the award-winner.

Through the Mexican Disabled Women’s Movement, García-Ramos Guadiana focuses on generating actions to support the disabled, with a gender and violence-prevention orientation, together with organizations for girls and women.

Apart from being an MBA student, García-Ramos Guadiana collaborates as a Leader in the Diversity and Inclusion Office at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and is a member of the Nuevo León Social Development Council and of the Citizens’ Commission for Persons with Disabilities. She has also served as a Mexican civil society representative in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

The Tec Prize for Women, aimed at women students, alumnae, collaborators, faculty or directors, was launched in 2013 and this year received 243 nominations in the eight categories: Transformative Power, Citizenship, Art and Culture, Science and Technology, Life and Work, Health and Sports, #She4She and Entrepreneurship.