Verónica Dahl is an Argentine/Canadian mother, computer scientist, musician, and writer. She co-founded the Logic Programming field with 14 other scientists, and made pioneering contributions to human languages processing, computational molecular biology, constraint programming and knowledge-based systems. She received numerous awards for her scientific results in AI, and three first prizes for her literary work. Her research program is supported by NSERC. Her greatest scientific ambition is to help bridge the gap between the formal and the humanistic sciences, for a more balanced and ethical world.