Camilo Hernández was born in
Salcedo, the daughter of Antonio Manuel de Jesús Camilo and Lorenza Hernández Ramírez. She has seven siblings, a daughter, and a son. She graduated with a
licentiate in law from the
Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, and later earned a master's degree in political science from the
Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. In 1991 she joined the National Commitment movement to support
José Francisco Peña Gómez of the
Dominican Revolutionary Party. She held various positions within that movement. Camilo Hernández is the President of the Latin American Institute for Women and Politics. She is a vice president of the
Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPPPAL Women). She is also vice president of
Socialist International Women. She was appointed Minister of Women's Affairs by President
Danilo Medina on August 16, 2016. On February 1, 2018, she was named president pro tempore of the Council of Women's Ministers of Central America and the Dominican Republic (COMMCA). ==References==