Elena Zelayeta
Mexican-American chef
Mexican-American chef
Mexican literary researcher and academic
Tarahumara poet, essayist, translator, and social activist.
U.S. Representative from New Mexico
U.S. Senator from Nevada
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.
Considered the first Mexican-American novelist, and a precursor to the Chicano/a movement
Mexican-American suffragist and actor
Mexican historian
Mexican sociologist