Marcela Pini

Pini was born in 1972.^[1] In the 1990s, she attended school to study psychology, but dropped out when she began to transition.^[2] After dropping out, Pini earned money as a sex worker.^[2][1] Pini went back to school at the Universidad de la Republica in 2013 and earned her degree in psychology three years later.^[2][1] She is one of the first three transgender women to have earned a college degree in Uruguay.^[1] Pini is now a faculty member at the Universidad de la Republica.^[3]

Pini works to support and expand rights for transgender people in Uruguay and is a member of Unión Trans in Montevideo.^[4] She has worked to support the law protecting transgender people, the Ley integral para Personas Trans.^[5]