Arantza Urkaregi

Arantza Urkaregi (born 23 April 1954) is a mathematician, union organizer, and feminist politician. Within mathematics, she writes, researches, and teaches predominantly about statistics. With regards to her political work, she was involved in the communist party in Basque and the early feminist movement there.

Life Urkaregi was born on 23 April 1954 in San Sebastian, in the Basque Autonomous community in Spain. She studied at the University of Basque Country.

Activist work In her 20s, she became involved in EMK (the Basque communist party) and Basque feminist organizations. She has also been on the Bilbao City Council as a member of the Abertzale Sozialistak group. Particularly, Urkaregi has been active in Basque separatist groups, such being the spokesperson for Basque Nationalist Action, which was outlawed by the Spanish government in 2008 for supposed ties to ETA. In 2009, she was arrested along with other members of the group.

Academic work As demonstrated by Inguma, which is a database for publications in the Basque scientific community, Urkaregi has published extensively about biostatistics. articles about feminism and math, and courses.