Dr Helena Beristain
Helena Beristáin Díaz was a Mexican researcher and academic.
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Claudia Sheinbaum
In 2024, Mexican politician and environmental engineer Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman and first Jewish person elected president of Mexico, winning a landslide victory.
Rita Cetina y Gutierrez
Mexican educator, writer and feminist Rita Cetina y Gutierrez advocated for women’s education in Mérida, Yucatán.
Elena Zelayeta
Mexican-American chef
Aurora M Ocampo
Mexican literary researcher and academic
Dolores Batista
Tarahumara poet, essayist, translator, and social activist.
Xochitl Torres Small
U.S. Representative from New Mexico
Catherine Marie Cortez Masto
U.S. Senator from Nevada
Romana Acosta Bañuelos
In 1970 President Richard Nixon picked Romana Acosta Bañuelos to the post of U.S. Treasurer, the first Latina in the position in U.S. history.
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Considered the first Mexican-American novelist, and a precursor to the Chicano/a movement