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.
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Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley was a trailblazing lawyer and judge whose contributions to both Black history and women’s history left a permanent mark on American society.
Flora Díaz Parrado
Cuban lawyer and women’s rights activist
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer was one of a number of Latina writers who rose to prominence during the 1980s and 1990s.
Elena Diaz-Verson Amos
Philanthropist Elena Diaz-Verson Amos, a Cuban immigrant, was active in educational, philanthropic, and political causes and dedicated to increasing intercultural understanding in Georgia.
Teresita Fernández
Teresita Fernández, recipient of a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, is a sculptor and visual artist whose works—often large in scale and inspired by landscape and natural phenomena—explore issues of perception and seeing.
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.
Belkis Pulido
Mexican writer and cultural promoter
Alberta Gonzalez
She and other workers staged the first Puerto Rican workers strike in New Jersey.
Rosa Elena Egipciaco
Puerto Rican lacemaker