Emma Tenayuca
Emma Tenayuca was a Mexican-American labor organizer and civil rights activist who led strikes by women workers in Texas in the 1930s.
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Ynes Mexia
One of the most successful botanists and female plant collectors of her time; she did not begin her career until she was 55 years old.
Lucy Parsons
Prominent African-American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist
Beatrice Worsley
Pioneering Canadian computer scientist.
Amalia Hernández
Prominent Mexican ballet choreographer renowned for founding the Ballet Folklórico de México.
Dr Sarah Stewart
Sarah Stewart was a Mexican-American researcher renowned for her pioneering work in viral oncology research. She was the first to demonstrate the transmission of cancer-causing viruses from one animal to another.
Laura Aguilar
Using photography as a tool for the empowerment of her community, Laura Aguilar provided new possibilities for the depictions of subjects and bodies that had traditionally been excluded from art history.
Sak Kʼukʼ
Ruler of Palenque from 612-615
Tlapalizquixochtzin
Tlapalizquixochtzin was an Aztec queen regnant and empress in the sixteenth century before the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Yax Ahau Xoc
Queen consort of the Mayan city of Copán, in present-day Honduras