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Débora Arango was one of Colombia’s most original and fearless 20th century artists.

For decades, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has been at the forefront of artmaking that seeks to provide space for mourning, grieving, and memory.

American playwright and journalist best known for her groundbreaking 1928 play “Machinal.”

Groundbreaking Chicana scholar, feminist theorist, writer, and cultural activist.

Neris Uriana was appointed the first female chief of the Wayuu tribe in La Guajira, Colombia, in 2005.

Tlapalizquixochtzin was an Aztec queen regnant and empress in the sixteenth century before the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.

Queen consort of the Mayan city of Copán, in present-day Honduras

Yohl Ik’nal – meaning Lady Heart Wind Place – was the first recorded Mayan queen, ruling from late 583 until late 604.

Chuqui Huipa was a sixteenth-century princess and later coya (queen or empress consort) of the Incan Empire

15th century Incan queen