Felipa Graciela Pérez y Gutiérrez
Celebrated Cuban-American singer known for her enchanting performances in Cuban music and Latin jazz.
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Coco Fusco
Across all the varied mediums in which she works her art interrogates the systems of contemporary power that impact and restrict the lives of people ‘othered’ by the society they live in, whether because of their race or ethnicity, nationality, class position, gender, or the intersections between them.
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.
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.