Irma Xóchitl is an anthropologist and linguist, author of the books Nahuatocaitl. Apellidos nahuas de Puebla, senderos hacia nuestra cultura originaria (2018) and Mah timomachtiah nahuatlahtolli ican totoca. Aprendamos náhuatl con nuestros apellidos (2021).
Isabel Juárez Espinosa is a Maya Tseltal writer who has been writing since 1990, exploring social themes and issues, concepts of race and ethnicity, and the problems associated with urbanization, such as alcoholism and addiction.
Dr. Mary H. Roessel was the first person in her Diné (Navajo) community to attend medical school and become a doctor (1987) and the first woman Diné (Navajo) psychiatrist to provide Indian Health Service clinical care in New Mexico.
Dr. Marie Amos Dobyns is an Eastern Cherokee Native American, who fully integrates her Indian heritage into her medical practice.
Marilyn A. Roubidoux, M.D., works to bring existing medical tools to the underserved to diagnose cancer and identify risk factors for the disease.
Cristina Pérez Martínez’s poetry has been published in the books “Yisimtak ts’unubil, semilla y raices” and “Buch’u Shainoj li vitse ¿Quién habita esta montaña?.”
Adriana del Carmen López Sántiz is a Tseltal poet from the community of Chanam del Carmen in Ocosingo, Chiapas.
Pacific Northwest Indigenous activist Shirley Williams has been a force in using the ancestral homelands of the San Juan Island National Historical Park as a site for community healing through preservation of the Straits Salish culture.
Geraldine Kenui Bell, better known as Geri, was the first Native Hawaiian woman to be superintendent of a National Park Service (NPS) unit – in fact, she oversaw the operation of two different parks in Hawai‘i simultaneously.
Dr. Chinn was the first African American woman to hold an internship at Harlem Hospital, the first woman to ride with the Harlem Hospital ambulance crew on emergency calls and the first African American woman to graduate from the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1926.