Dr Yolanda Zamora
Mexican writer and journalist
Mexican writer and journalist
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.
German-Mexican actress, researcher and academic
NAACP fundraiser
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.
Mexican novelist and short story writer.
Mexican writer and radio and television producer
Irish broadcaster and public relations consultant
When World War II broke out in 1939, freelance photojournalist Marvin Breckinridge Patterson took the first pictures of a London air-raid shelter.
May Cottrell published more than 1,000 articles in 13 countries.