Laura Bendfeldt

Laura Zachrisson Descamps (26 November 1920 – 10 June 1948) was a Guatemalan women's rights advocate and educator. She was one of the teachers who was shot during the teacher's protest which occurred on 25 June 1944. She was one of the founders of the women's rights group Comité Pro-Ciudadanía.

Biography Laura Zachrisson Descamps was born on 26 November 1920 in Guatemala City, Guatemala, to Julia María Descamps Aldana and Carlos Oscar Anselmo Zachrisson Padilla, who was at one point mayor of Guatemala City and finance minister under both president José María Orellana and Lázaro Chacón González. She married Carlos Francisco Federico Bendfeldt Jáuregui In 1945, inspired by successes in suffrage by women in England, France, and United States Zachrisson Descamps joined with Romelia Alarcón, María Albertina Gálvez, Clemencia de Herrarte, Gloria Menéndez Mina, Adriana de Palarea, Graciela Quan and Magdalena Spínola to form the Comité Pro-Ciudadanía to fight for Guatemalan women's suffrage.

She died in New York City on 10 June 1948 and was buried on 12 June 1948 at Fresh Pond Crematory.