Esmeralda Santiago
Esmeralda Santiago is the author of the novel “Conquistadora” and the memoirs “When I Was Puerto Rican” and “Almost A Woman,” which was adapted into a Peabody Award–winning movie.
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Celia Cruz
Known worldwide as the “Queen of Salsa,” Cruz recorded more than 70 albums and received countless accolades.
Dr Maria Isabel Herran
Maria Isabel Herran, M.D., has devoted herself to international health, refugee children, and the development and regulation of international adoption.
Dr Ileana Vargas-Rodriquez
In 1998, Dr. Ileana Vargas-Rodriguez helped establish the pediatric component of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.
Felicitas Mendez
Mother of the children at the heart of the Mendez et al v. Westminster School District of Orange County et al court case on racial segregation in the California public school system.
Sylvia Mendez
Child at the heart of the Mendez et al v. Westminster School District of Orange County et al court case on racial segregation in the California public school system.
Olga Custodio
The first Latina U.S. military pilot
Gloria Naylor
American novelist best known for her debut work, “The Women of Brewster Place” (1982), which won the National Book Award for First Novel in 1983.
Helen Rodríguez Trías
Pioneering American pediatrician, educator, and women’s rights activist.
Maria
Maria was a slave and possibly the leader of a 1716 slave rebellion on Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies in 1716.