Dr. Araceli Alonso

Araceli Alonso is a 2013 United Nations Award Winner for her public service and her activism on women’s health and women right. She is currently an Associate Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and in the School of Medicine and Public Health, where she teaches classes on women’s health and women’s rights. Alonso holds a Nursing degree, a Bachelors degree in History, a Master of Science, a Master of Arts, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology.

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She is a professor, a writer, a women’s rights activist, and a philanthropist. Doctor Alonso’s multidisciplinary background has helped her work with women around the world in different circumstances, devoting the last twenty years to analyze women’s health, women’s rights, and women’s empowerment cross-culturally. Alonso has extensive experience in conducting ethnographic research and fieldwork on women’s lives in Spain, Cuba, Uganda, Kenya, and the United States. Her qualitative research skills became evident in the outcomes of her doctoral dissertation on Cuban women, which was awarded the Hyde Dissertation Research Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research in Gender and Women’s Studies in 2002, and the Robert Miller Prize for Outstanding Dissertation Research in Anthropology in 2002. Dr. Alonso is also the Founder and Director of the numerous award-winning non-profit organization called Health by Motorbike that provides a comprehensive model of health and well-being for women and children in rural communities of southeastern Kenya.