Raquel Peña was born on September 10, 1966 in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. She grew up in a hard-working and enterprising family, with businesses in different sectors, being a reference in the creation of jobs in the zone. Educated in a family with great human and political vocation, always supporting the actions of the different Dominican democratic leaders.

She is a mother, grandmother, businesswoman and defender of education as a tool for improvement.
With a degree in Business Administration from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM). In addition, she studied in the areas of Education, Finance, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, as well as in Business Incubators both in the Dominican Republic and abroad, obtaining a Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of APEC double degree with the University of Quebec in Montreal.

She combined studies with her working life at a very early age, rotating through all areas of family businesses, until he assumed the responsibility of general manager in commercial and tobacco companies. She is also member of different business associations, among them the Chamber of Commerce and Production of Santiago, the Association of Merchants and Industrialists of Santiago and the Association for Development.

With a marked vocation for education that emerge while he was in high school at Colegio La Salle, when she became actively involved in the literacy of children in vulnerable conditions who had no place in the public school in the sector of Cienfuegos, today Santiago Oeste Municipal District.

It was in 2000 when she formally developed her educational vocation as a professor at the PUCMM at the technical, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She later be incorporated to the administrative area, as director of the Business Administration career and director of the International Center for Innovation in Technology and Administration (CITAM), becoming Vice Rector of Administration and Finance at the PUCMM, in addition to founding the PUCMM- entrepreneurship center.

On July 5, 2020, Raquel Peña Rodríguez became the third woman in Dominican history to occupy the position of Vice President of the Republic, after, in March of that same year, the presidential candidate for the Modern Revolutionary Party, Luis Abinader, chose her as his running mate and together they will run in the 2020 presidential elections.

In her role as Vice President of the Republic, it is worth mentioning the appointment by President Luis Abinader as coordinator of the Health Cabinet by decree 498-20, where she has demonstrated her managerial capacity in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, placing the Dominican Republic at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic throughout the American continent.

Also, she was appointed as president and coordinator of the Investment Promotion Cabinet by decree 849-21, with the objective of promoting policies, guidelines and mechanisms to encourage investment in strategic sectors that contribute to the improvement and elevation of the country's competitiveness.

Later, also by decree, she was appointed as temporary head of the Ministry of Environment, assuming functions on an honorary basis until the appointment of the head of that institution. In October 2022, the President issued decree 594-22 by which she became president of the Electric Cabinet, concluding her functions as coordinator of the Health Cabinet.

She is a politician with a clear and concise discourse, built on results exhibited in the different areas in which she has had responsibilities as Vice President of the Republic. She is also a member of the Executive Directorate of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM).

In addition to her vocation for education, it is worth mentioning her interest in social issues, which has been a major motivation for her to get involved in projects of great importance to society, such as, for example, the educational and community center Ciudad Santa María (CISAMA), where, as a founding volunteer, she supports children and young people to develop their maximum academic potential, based on the development of their abilities.