Mercedes D’Alessandro, PhD (University of Buenos Aires, UBA) is an economist from Argentina, currently based in New York. She taught at UBA for more than 15 years, was director of the Political Economics program at the National University of General Sarmiento (Buenos Aires), and made numerous contributions to the popularization of economics. In 2015, she founded Economía Femini(s)ta (Feminist Economics), first a website and later a NGO that spreads economic information with a gender perspective using plain language. This work made her a key figure in the positioning of feminist economics at the forefront of the public agenda in Argentina.