Matilde Zimmermann
Matilde Zimmermann is an American author and professor who ran as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States Vice President in 1980. The party had three different presidential candidates that year, Andrew Pulley, Richard H. Congress and Clifton DeBerry depending on the state. She was at the time a writer for the party newspaper The Militant. Zimmermann also ran as an alternate vice presidential candidate for Andrea Gonzales in some states in 1984; Melvin T. Mason was the presidential candidate.
Zimmermann is the Residente Director of SLC in Cuba and is a faculty member in History and Global Studies at SLC. She has been based in Havana the last two fall semesters as director of SLC in Cuba. Because of the U.S. restrictions on undergraduate academic programs in Cuba, Sarah Lawrence is now the only program of U.S. students at the University of Havana.
