María Feliciana Arballo, a 25-year-old widow of Afro-Latina descent with two small children, was one of about forty women in the Anza expedition when it began its colonizing journey from Sonora, Mexico to Alta California (upper California) in 1775.
Mexican academic, researcher and translator
Mexican academic and postdoctoral researcher.
Mexican writer.
Mexican writer, academic, researcher and editor.
Mexican playwright, actress and literary theatre critic
Mexican researcher, professor, essayist and literary critic
Mexican writer and photographer
Mexican writer and journalist
Irene Gomez-Bethke, a daughter of Mexican parents who immigrated to Minnesota, played a leadership role in bending the arc of history toward social justice, serving as Minnesota Commissioner of Human Rights, guiding boards and commissions as a volunteer, and co-founding both Centro Cultural Chicano and Instituto de Arte y Cultura.