Elena Zelayeta
Mexican-American chef
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Aurora M Ocampo
Mexican literary researcher and academic
Dolores Batista
Tarahumara poet, essayist, translator, and social activist.
Xochitl Torres Small
U.S. Representative from New Mexico
Catherine Marie Cortez Masto
U.S. Senator from Nevada
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Considered the first Mexican-American novelist, and a precursor to the Chicano/a movement
Lucretia del Valle Grady
Mexican-American suffragist and actor
Aurora Lucero-White Lea
Latina U.S. suffragist and folklorist
Romana Acosta Bañuelos
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.
Soledad Chávez de Chacón
Chávez de Chacón was the first Latina elected to statewide office in the United States, and the first woman in the nation to win an election for that office. She would serve two terms as New Mexico Secretary of State through 1926 and in 1934 was elected to New Mexico’s House of Representatives, becoming the fourth Latina to hold that office.