Leticia Ramírez Amaya (Mexico City, 25 March 1961) is a Mexican professor, labor leader, and Morena politician.[1] Since 1 September 2022, she has been the Secretary of Public Education.[2]
She is a professor of primary education at the Benemérita Escuela Nacional de Maestros [es], a position she obtained in 1984, having led a group for 12 years in schools west of Mexico City.[3] She took incomplete anthropological studies at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH) and Alta Dirección Pública.[4] She participated in leftist social movements like the Movimiento Urbano Popular México [es] and the Organización de Izquierda Revolucionaria Línea de Masas.[5]
She participated in 9th Section of the 1989 magisterial movement, the objective of which was democratization of the primary syndicate of teachers, the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (SNTE); leading to the downfall of leader Carlos Jonguitud Barrios and the establishment of the Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE), as articulated by sections like the 9th. She stopped her syndicalist activity in 1992.[5]
She was responsible for Citizen Services from 2000 to 2012 in the Government of Mexico City [es]. Afterward from 2012 to 2018 she advised the Secretariat of the Environment of Mexico City [es]. From 2018 to 2022, she was Director of Citizen Services of the Presidency of the Republic.[5]
On 15 August 2022, it was announced she was to succeed Delfina Gómez Álvarez as Secretary of Public Education,[6] being inaugurated on 1 September.[2]
