As a sea-level researcher, Nicole Hernandez Hammer has studied how the cities and regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and sea-level rise also have large Hispanic populations — something she learned firsthand growing up in South Florida.
Martine Gutierrez’s works often imitate mass media, from billboards to music videos. In the case of Indigenous Woman, she created a 124-page magazine featuring everything from fake advertisements to full fashion spreads.
Myrna Mack Chang was a respected Guatemalan anthropologist who was stabbed to death in 1990 by members of the Guatemalan military due to her criticism of the government’s treatment of the indigenous Maya and human rights abuses.
Queen of Tikal in the early 500s
Lady Wak Chanil Ajaw, also known as “Lady Six Sky” (c. 667 C.E-741 C.E), was a Maya queen of Naranjo.
Guatemalan engineer and diplomat Francisca Fernández-Hall Zúñiga was the first woman to graduate from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the first woman to earn an engineering degree in Central America, the first woman to be accepted and attend the Instituto Militar de Engenharia of Brazil, and Guatemala’s first female ambassador.
Luisa Moreno was a labor organizer and civil rights activist in the United States.