Leticia Ramírez Amaya

Leticia Ramírez Amaya (born 25 March 1961) is a Mexican professor, labor leader, and Morena politician. From 1 September 2022 to 30 September 2024, she served as the Secretary of Public Education, since April 29 2026, she serves as the current Secretary of Welfare after Ariadna Montiel Reyes resigned from her position on April 28 2026.

Career She is a professor of primary education at the , a position she obtained in 1984, having led a group for 12 years in schools west of Mexico City. She took incomplete anthropological studies at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH) and Alta Dirección Pública. She participated in leftist social movements like the and the Organización de Izquierda Revolucionaria Línea de Masas.

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. being inaugurated on 1 September.