Jack Bee Garland
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.
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Martha Cardona
Puerto Rican woman who brought a legal case, Cardona v. Power (1966), for being denied suffrage due to her lack of English literacy.
Dr Deborah Paredez
Co-founder of CantoMundo, the US’s first organization of its kind to specifically cater to Latinx poets
Angela Katson
US Navy officer and ultra-marathon runner
Norma Torres
US Representative from California
Nanette Barragán
US Representative from California
Sylvia Garcia
US Representative from Texas
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
US Representative from Florida
Loretta Sanchez
During her 20-year tenure in the US House of Representatives, Sanchez was an advocate for women in the military and specialized in national security policy, rising to become one of the most senior Democrats on two influential committees—Armed Services and Homeland Security. In 2003, after her sister Linda won election to the House, the two became the first sisters to serve in Congress.
Linda T Sánchez
US Representative from California