Yolanda Padilla
Dr. Yolanda Padilla is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.
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Dr Dorothy Laigo Cordova
In 1957, Cordova cofounded the Filipino Youth Activities (FYA), along with other families who came from different social backgrounds. The FYA was made to provide a space for Filipino American youth to spend time with their families and create a community rich in culture.
Sara Margarita Zendejas
Mexican poet and teacher whose research focuses on the pedagogical, psychological and social problems that affect Mexican adolescents, such as drug addiction and family disintegration, which have repercussions on their education.
Isabel Juárez Espinosa
Isabel Juárez Espinosa is a Maya Tseltal writer who has been writing since 1990, exploring social themes and issues, concepts of race and ethnicity, and the problems associated with urbanization, such as alcoholism and addiction.
Dr Zelma Watson George
African-American opera singer, educator, and civic leader
Dora Mayer
Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
Hilde Himmelweit
German social psychologist who was influential on the development of the discipline in the United Kingdom
Jessy Mair
Sociologist and London School of Economics School Secretary in the 1930s
Minnie Haskins
Poet, novelist and welfare activist