Ada Limón
24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress
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Petra Romero
1800s owner and operator of a dance hall in Death Valley called Waterfall Dance House or “Madam Moore’s.”
Ynes Mexia
One of the most successful botanists and female plant collectors of her time; she did not begin her career until she was 55 years old.
Emma Tenayuca
Emma Tenayuca was a Mexican-American labor organizer and civil rights activist who led strikes by women workers in Texas in the 1930s.
Lucy Parsons
Prominent African-American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist
Beatrice Worsley
Pioneering Canadian computer scientist.
Amalia Hernández
Prominent Mexican ballet choreographer renowned for founding the Ballet Folklórico de México.
Dr Sarah Stewart
Sarah Stewart was a Mexican-American researcher renowned for her pioneering work in viral oncology research. She was the first to demonstrate the transmission of cancer-causing viruses from one animal to another.
Laura Aguilar
Using photography as a tool for the empowerment of her community, Laura Aguilar provided new possibilities for the depictions of subjects and bodies that had traditionally been excluded from art history.
Sophie Treadwell
American playwright and journalist best known for her groundbreaking 1928 play “Machinal.”