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Selena Quintanilla
Grammy Award-winning Latin recording artist whose contributions to music and fashion made her one of the most celebrated Mexican American entertainers of the late 20th century.
Tina Ramirez
Tina Ramirez combined her artistic vision with years of performance and teaching experience to create and sustain the nation’s preeminent Hispanic-American dance company and school, Ballet Hispanico.
Rosie Flores
In the 1970s, she became one of the most celebrated performers on the “cowpunk” circuit (a hybrid of punk rock and country).
Verónica Castillo
Third-generation Mexican-American clay artist
Flora Díaz Parrado
Cuban lawyer and women’s rights activist
Lydia Mendoza
Mexican-American singer known as “La Alondra de la Frontera” (the meadowlark of the border) and “La Cancionera de los Pobres” (the songstress of the poor)
Vanessa Sanchez y La Mezcla
Vanessa Sanchez’s work as a dancer, choreographer, and founding artistic director of the dance group La Mezcla is born from deep engagement with the music and dance traditions of the Latinx and Afro-Latinx diaspora.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer was one of a number of Latina writers who rose to prominence during the 1980s and 1990s.
Elena Diaz-Verson Amos
Philanthropist Elena Diaz-Verson Amos, a Cuban immigrant, was active in educational, philanthropic, and political causes and dedicated to increasing intercultural understanding in Georgia.