Esther Ayuso [SEP] sex or gender
Esther Ayuso
Esther Ayuso (born November 1958) was the first female Belizean architect. She is known for her designs to improve hospitals in Belize including Belize Medical Associates, the Cleopatra White Polyclinic, Matron Robert polyclinic, the Hoy Eye Clinic and the PICU/NICU wing of Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital due to be completed in 2015. She has served as a Senator and as the Chair of the National Women's Commission, as well as the Belizean delegate to the Inter-American Commission of Women. In 2015 she was
awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for contributions to the community.
Early life and education.
Esther Josefina Ayuso was born in Caracas, Venezuela, to Josefina (née Medero), a banking clerk, and Oscar Ayuso, a Belizean banking official with the Royal Bank of Canada. Shortly after her birth, the family returned to Belize City in British Honduras. There she would later attend St. Catherine’s Academy High School, graduating in 1975. That same year she travelled to Caracas with the aim of