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Dr Wanda Díaz-Merced

Puerto Rican scientist who created ‘sonification’ software that allowed her to participate fully in astrophysical endeavors despite vision loss

Considered the first Puerto Rican woman to earn a diploma in architecture (1945), she was also the first Puerto Rican woman to obtain a license to practice architecture and work as a professional architect in Puerto Rico (1945).

Nilda Comas

American sculptor

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.