Sergia Galván Ortega

As a member of the Democratic Choice Party, Galván is a member of the Political Directorate and leads the Secretariat for Women. She was a candidate for deputy by Circumscription No. 1 of the National District in the 2016 Minou Coalition, in box No. 23 of the Alliance for Democracy APD but was not elected.

Sergia Galván was the first Dominican to be part of the Expert Committee to follow up on the implementation of the Convention of Belém Do Pará. She was also an Alternate Delegate before the Inter-American Commission of Women of the OAS [add year], a member of the Women's Committee of Latin America and the Caribbean preparatory for the Human Rights Conference held in 1993 in Vienna, a member of the Women's Committee of Latin America and the Caribbean preparatory for the Beijing Conference held in 1995 in China, and a member of the International Committee to Follow up the Durban Conference against racism [add year] .

Galván's activism led her to coordinate the first convention of Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which was held in the Dominican Republic in 1992. Galván was the Co-Founder of La Red de Mujeres Afrodescendientes de América Latina y Caribe (Network of Afro-Descendant Women of Latin America and the Caribbean) as well as Co-Founder of the Movimiento por la Identidad de la Mujer Negra (Movement for the Identity of Black Women) in the Dominican Republic.

Between 1989 and 1992 Galván lived in Mexico, where she took courses in Women's studies at the Universidad Metropolitana Mexico and was employed at the Centro de Investigación de América Latina y el Caribe CIDAL (Research Center of Latin America and the Caribbean).

In 1984, she joined the Dominican Center for Education Studies in the Women's Program, one of the main NGOs in the country. Galvan continues to represent women in the countryside and in the city. That same year, together with other women's groups, she founded the Colectiva Mujer y Salud (Women and Health Collective), an organization focused on women's health and sexuality.

Galván was part of the delegation of Dominican women who participated in the First Feminist Encounter of Latin America and the Caribbean held in Bogotá, Colombia in 1981.

In 1980 she worked with Accion Femenina Incorporada (AFI) (Women's Action Incorporated), a left feminist organization which collaborates with Mujeres Amas de Casa (Women Housewives).

In the late 1970s, she was a soldier in the liberal Comités Revolucionarios Camilo Torres (CORECATO) and later in the Socialist Movement of the MST [explain what initials stand for] Workers, a militant group. Galvan left these to pursue work in the social and the feminist movements. In 2015, Galván joined Minou Tavárez Mirabal in the process of building the Partido Opción Democrática (Democratic Choice Party).

Sergia Galván Ortega (Hato Mayor del Rey, Dominican Republic, 1955) is a Dominican feminist activist, teacher and counselor. She joined the feminist movement in 1979 and has worked since to advocate for women's rights, both from within women's organizations and as a part of political and social movements.