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Yomaira Pagán Torres

Puerto Rican chemical engineer

Migdalia Cruz

Throughout her career as a playwright, Migdalia Cruz has written over 60 plays, musicals, and operas, traveled the world, met the Dalai Lama, and earned prestigious awards.

Martina Arroyo

American opera singer and educator

Martha Cardona

Puerto Rican woman who brought a legal case, Cardona v. Power (1966), for being denied suffrage due to her lack of English literacy.

Jenniffer González-Colón

Governor of Puerto Rico

Tina Ramirez

Tina Ramirez combined her artistic vision with years of performance and teaching experience to create and sustain the nation’s preeminent Hispanic-American dance company and school, Ballet Hispanico.

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Judith Ortiz Cofer was one of a number of Latina writers who rose to prominence during the 1980s and 1990s.

Aracelis Girmay

Aracelis Girmay is the author of the collage-based picture book, changing, changing, and the poetry collection Teeth, for which she was awarded a GLCA New Writers Award.

Alberta Gonzalez

She and other workers staged the first Puerto Rican workers strike in New Jersey.

Rosa Elena Egipciaco

Puerto Rican lacemaker