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.
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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.
Dr Carmen Castañeda
Mexican historian
Luz María Chapela
Mexican sociologist
Patricia Cox
Mexican essayist and fiction writer
Mireya Cueto
Storyteller, playwright, and puppeteer, one of the greatest promoters of children’s theater and literature in Mexico.
Catalina D’Erzell
Mexican novelist, poet, journalist, playwright, silent film actress, screenwriter, and composer
Aline Davidoff
Mexican writer, actress, and translator of plays
Mimí Derba
Mexican actress, singer, writer, screenwriter, editor, director, and film producer
Adela Arriola
Adela Arriola was a Mexicanteacher and poet who wrote in the style of her generation’s Romantics.