Candelaria Figueredo
Cuban revolutionary
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Ana Betancourt
Cuban women’s rights activist
Eugenia Charles
Dominica’s first female prime minister
Claudia Jones
Journalist born in Trinidad who dedicated her life to fighting racism inequality and injustice.
Joséphine de Beauharnais
First wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, and first Empress of France.
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.
Loretta Ross
Loretta Ross is an academic and activist who has dedicated many years to advocating for women’s rights and reproductive justice. Most notably, she is a cofounder of SisterSong and Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, served as a previous Executive Director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, and is one of twelve women credited with coining the phrase and framework “reproductive justice.”
Teresa Carreño
Celebrated Venezuelan pianist, composer and conductor
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.
Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno has influenced the entertainment industry for over 70 years as an actress, singer, and dancer. After earning the four major entertainment awards: an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, Moreno became the first Latina woman to have an “E.G.O.T.” In 2004, she was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her many contributions to the arts.