Myrna Vázquez
Renowned Puerto Rican actress
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Paula Oyola
Activist who co-founded Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA) in 1968 to develop and now maintain Villa Victoria, a subsidized housing community built on a parcel of city land slated for urban renewal. IBA promotes the social and economic well being of Villa Victoria’s residents with programs that support the arts, especially expressi
Apolinaria Lorenzana
One of very few women in California to receive a land grant in her own name in the early 1800s
Martha Vogel
Mexican short story writer and novelist
Dr Asunción Rangel
Mexican writer, editor, researcher and professor.
Bidu Sayão
Brazilian operatic soprano
Alaíde Ventura Medina
Mexican anthropologist, writer and editor.
Flor Esther Aguilera Navarrete
Mexican academic, storyteller and poet.
Ana María Vázquez
Essayist and playwright
María Feliciana Arballo
María Feliciana Arballo, a 25-year-old widow of Afro-Latina descent with two small children, was one of about forty women in the Anza expedition when it began its colonizing journey from Sonora, Mexico to Alta California (upper California) in 1775.