María Teresa Ferrari
Argentine educator, physician, and women’s rights activist María Teresa Ferrari was the first woman to become a university professor in Latin America. She also did groundbreaking research advancing women’s health.
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Dr Tania Favela
Mexican poet, essayist, translator, editor, and teacher
Teresa Farías de Isasi
Mexican poet and playwright who wrote comedies and was a polyglot
Ana María de López Tena
Mexican poet, author of four books and the founder and president of the Salvatierra chapter of the Mexican Cultural Seminar (SCM)
Asunción Izquierdo Albiñana de Flores Muñoz
Mexican author who wrote two books of poetry, eight novels, and an unperformed theatrical farce
Guadalupe Curiel Defossé
Mexican researcher, professor, and historian.
Agripina Montes del Valle
Colombian author and poet
Rosa Carreto
Mexican poet and playwright
Ninfa Tanguma
Ninfa Tanguma and her daughter Yolanda Alaníz, provided determined leadership for Latinas in their transition from rural to urban areas. In 1970 Tanguma took her turn at picket duty in a hop-ranch strike in Yakima.
Mary Skinner
Washington politician Mary Skinner was first elected to represent the Yakima-area 14th District in the state House of Representatives in 1994. Skinner grew up as a farm worker and worked as a junior high school teacher and community volunteer.