Odaline de la Martinez
Composer, conductor and a graduate in maths and music, Odaline was the first woman, in 1984, to conduct a Prom in 89 seasons of the BBC Promenade Concerts, since it’s inception in 1895.
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Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Renowned Cuban poet.
Luisa Pérez de Zambrana
Cuban poet
Marta Abreu y Arencibia
Cuban philanthropist
Candelaria Figueredo
Cuban revolutionary
Ana Betancourt
Cuban women’s rights activist
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez is a Cuban-American mathematician and educator. She was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in Cuba.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the senior US Representative from Florida, the first Latina elected to the US Congress, and the first Republican in congress to publicly support the passage of the marriage equality act.
Tania Bruguera
Forcing awareness and reassessments of historical and current socio-political issues in Cuba, her legacy comes not only from her work itself, but also the media coverage of her numerous arrests, incarcerations, and interrogations by Cuban authorities, who view her work as a threat to their political system.