Ana María Vázquez
Essayist and playwright
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Celina Vázquez
Mexican academic, researcher and translator
Flo Ware
Florasina Ware was the quintessential activist, known in Seattle for raising a strong and logical voice on behalf of children, the elderly, and the poor.
Franca Arena
Arena always voiced pride in her Italian heritage and became a prominent figure in Sydney’s Italian community, working as a journalist on the Italian-language newspaper La Fiamma, and a broadcaster on ethnic community radio.
Dorothy Stimson Bullitt
Dorothy Stimson Bullitt purchased a small Seattle radio station with almost no listeners in 1947. She expanded it into one of the finest broadcasting empires in the nation.
Dr Yolanda Zamora
Mexican writer and journalist
Hilda Simms
Civil rights activist Hilda Simms became a national celebrity for her leading role in the first all-Black performance of the Broadway show Anna Lucasta. Frustrated by her struggling career and the lack of roles for Black actors, Simms worked as the creative director for the New York State Human Rights Commission to address racial discrimination in the entertainment industry.
Aimée Wagner y Mesa
German-Mexican actress, researcher and academic
Marguerite Belafonte
NAACP fundraiser
Farnaz Fassihi
Iranian-American journalist who, for over 20 years, has covered all sorts of wars and uprisings across the Middle East, in places like Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, the West Bank, Turkey, Syria, and more. She is the United Nations Bureau chief for the New York Times and was a senior writer and war correspondent for the Wall Street Journal for 17 years, based in the Middle East.