Esmeralda Santiago
Esmeralda Santiago is the author of the novel “Conquistadora” and the memoirs “When I Was Puerto Rican” and “Almost A Woman,” which was adapted into a Peabody Award–winning movie.
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Dr Ileana Vargas-Rodriquez
In 1998, Dr. Ileana Vargas-Rodriguez helped establish the pediatric component of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.
Felicitas Mendez
Mother of the children at the heart of the Mendez et al v. Westminster School District of Orange County et al court case on racial segregation in the California public school system.
Sylvia Mendez
Child at the heart of the Mendez et al v. Westminster School District of Orange County et al court case on racial segregation in the California public school system.
Olga Custodio
The first Latina U.S. military pilot
Dr Helen Rodríguez Trías
Pioneering American pediatrician, educator, and women’s rights activist.
Luisa Capetillo
Iconic figure in Puerto Rico’s labor history. An anarchist writer and relentless activist, she championed labor rights, women’s empowerment, free love, and human emancipation.
Ines
Doña Ines was a fifteenth-sixteenth century caciqua of Taíno origin
María Bibiana Benítez
Puerto Rican poet, activist and playwright
Mariana Bracetti
Puerto Rican heroine