A former farm worker, she worked until the end of her life helping Latinos find jobs, housing, and counseling. Through El Centro de la Raza, she organized emergency food programs and classes, and secured legal advice for recent arrivals to Seattle.
American artist Cecilia Concepción Alvarez developed a national reputation for her paintings, which reflects her experiences as a Chicana/Cubana as she expresses her own vision of beauty and strength.
Hortensia Villanueva formed a mothers’ club in December 1994. The wife of a union leader in Eastern Washington, Villanueva used space at the Farm Workers’ Clinic to organize the mothers of children who came down with contagious virus infections.
In 1988, Margarita López Prentice, a Democrat, won a seat representing the 11th District in the Washington state House of Representatives; she was later elected to the state senate from that district.
Mexican author and translator
Colombian author, editor and activist
Mexican playwright, novelist, and theater critic
Nidia Esther Rosado [Bacelis] was a Mexican educator and writer. She was a pioneer of audiovisual education in Yucatán, director of the Rodolfo Menéndez de la Peña Normal School for Teachers, and received the Yucatán Medal in 1987.
Guadalupe Marín (1895-1983) wrote two stories, La única (1938) and Un día patrio (1941), whose turbulence does not prevent some pages of geological lyricism.
Mexican novelist and essayist