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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’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.

Teresita Fernández

Teresita Fernández, recipient of a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, is a sculptor and visual artist whose works—often large in scale and inspired by landscape and natural phenomena—explore issues of perception and seeing.

Aracelis Girmay

Aracelis Girmay is the author of the collage-based picture book, changing, changing, and the poetry collection Teeth, for which she was awarded a GLCA New Writers Award.

Nancy Lopez

The youngest woman ever to be inducted into the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Hall of Fame, Albany resident Nancy Lopez won forty-eight tournaments and earned more than $5 million in prize money during her career.