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Mexican educator, writer and feminist Rita Cetina y Gutierrez advocated for women’s education in Mérida, Yucatán.

Mexican-American chef

Mexican literary researcher and academic

Tarahumara poet, essayist, translator, and social activist.

U.S. Representative from New Mexico

U.S. Senator from Nevada

Considered the first Mexican-American novelist, and a precursor to the Chicano/a movement

Mexican-American suffragist and actor

Latina U.S. suffragist and folklorist

In 1970 President Richard Nixon picked Romana Acosta Bañuelos to the post of U.S. Treasurer, the first Latina in the position in U.S. history.