Leslie Sainz
Cuban-American poet
Cuban-American poet
American arts patron
Venezuelan-American artist
Chicana feminist, community organizer, activist, author and educator
Assigned female at birth, Jack Bee Garland lived their life presenting as male, including serving as a medic during the Spanish American War and the aftermath of the San Francisco 1906 earthquake.
Puerto Rican woman who brought a legal case, Cardona v. Power (1966), for being denied suffrage due to her lack of English literacy.
Co-founder of CantoMundo, the US’s first organization of its kind to specifically cater to Latinx poets
US Navy officer and ultra-marathon runner
US Representative from California
US Representative from California