Brígida García Guzmán

Brígida García Guzmán (May 13, 1947 – 18 September 2020 ) was a sociologist and demographer. She was born in Moca in the Dominican Republic in 1947. In 1969, she moved to Mexico to pursue studies in demographics at The College of Mexico. She later obtained her doctorate in sociology at the School of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She became a Mexican citizen in 1991.

García Guzmán was a professor and investigator at the Center of Demographic, Urban, and Environmental studies at El Colegio de México, until she gained emeritus status in 2019.