Raquel Peña de Antuña

Raquel Peña de Antuña (born Raquel Peña Rodríguez; 10 September 1966) is a Dominican politician and academic who has served as Vice President of the Dominican Republic since 2020.

Peña was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, on 10 September 1966, to tobacco industrialist Rafael Leocadio Peña Guillén, a white Dominican, and Estela Rodríguez, a mixed-race Dominican woman.

She was educated primary at the Sagrado Corazón de Jesús School, and she studied secondary at the De La Salle School.

She graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra.

Peña started her career following her graduation, at the companies owned by her family.

She became a manager at the tobacco and commercial companies.

In 2000, Peña became a professor of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra.

In 2019, Peña was chosen by Luis Abinader as vice-presidential candidate for the Modern Revolutionary Party in the 2020 elections.

Her husband died in 2019.

She won the election, along with Abinader, on 5 July 2020.

Peña was sworn in on 16 August 2020.

Peña was married to engineer Marco José Antuña Cabral, a white Dominican, great-great-great-grandson of French-Dominican Colonel Furcy Fondeur.

They have three children and a grandson by their daughter.