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Carmencristina Moreno

Carmencristina Moreno, recipient of the Bess Lomax Hawes Award, has been recognized for her lifelong contribution to Mexican American musical heritage through songwriting, performing, and teaching.

Cecilia Matic

Cecilia Matic worked for the National Park Service for 33 years

Valentina Ramírez

Soldadera who inspired the Carrancista corrido (ballad) “La Valentina” and fought at the side of General Ramón F. Iturbide in the Mexican Revolution

Grissel Gómez Estrada

Mexican poet

Margarita Neri

Zapatista commander and a soldadera during the Mexican Revolution.

María Quinteras de Meras

Col. María Quinteras de Meras was a coronela whom Pancho Villa highly respected. She proved herself in the ten battles she fought during her three years in his rebel army from 1910-1913.

Aura Xilonen

Mexican writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.

Ayari Velázquez

Mexican writer

Luz Corral

Although Pancho Villa went on to marry many other women, Corral is considered his first wife, and the only one to have contributed to his political career.

Graciela Salicrup

Graciela Salicrup trained as an architect and then worked as an archaeologist. She became a mathematics undergraduate at the age of 29 and went on to the become a leading topologist.