Asunción Izquierdo Albiñana de Flores Muñoz
Mexican author who wrote two books of poetry, eight novels, and an unperformed theatrical farce
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Guadalupe Curiel Defossé
Mexican researcher, professor, and historian.
Agripina Montes del Valle
Colombian author and poet
Rosa Carreto
Mexican poet and playwright
Ninfa Tanguma
Ninfa Tanguma and her daughter Yolanda Alaníz, provided determined leadership for Latinas in their transition from rural to urban areas. In 1970 Tanguma took her turn at picket duty in a hop-ranch strike in Yakima.
Mary Skinner
Washington politician Mary Skinner was first elected to represent the Yakima-area 14th District in the state House of Representatives in 1994. Skinner grew up as a farm worker and worked as a junior high school teacher and community volunteer.
Frances Martínez
A former farm worker, she worked until the end of her life helping Latinos find jobs, housing, and counseling. Through El Centro de la Raza, she organized emergency food programs and classes, and secured legal advice for recent arrivals to Seattle.
Cecilia Concepción Alvarez
American artist Cecilia Concepción Alvarez developed a national reputation for her paintings, which reflects her experiences as a Chicana/Cubana as she expresses her own vision of beauty and strength.
Hortensia Villanueva
Hortensia Villanueva formed a mothers’ club in December 1994. The wife of a union leader in Eastern Washington, Villanueva used space at the Farm Workers’ Clinic to organize the mothers of children who came down with contagious virus infections.
Margarita López Prentice
In 1988, Margarita López Prentice, a Democrat, won a seat representing the 11th District in the Washington state House of Representatives; she was later elected to the state senate from that district.