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Teresa Gisbert

Prominent Bolivian architect, art historian, and researcher, known for her significant contributions to the understanding and preservation of Bolivian cultural heritage and architecture.

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.

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.

Débora Arango

Débora Arango was one of Colombia’s most original and fearless 20th century artists.

Doris Salcedo

For decades, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has been at the forefront of artmaking that seeks to provide space for mourning, grieving, and memory.

Gloria E Anzaldúa

Groundbreaking Chicana scholar, feminist theorist, writer, and cultural activist.

Neris Uriana

Neris Uriana was appointed the first female chief of the Wayuu tribe in La Guajira, Colombia, in 2005.

Yax Ahau Xoc

Queen consort of the Mayan city of Copán, in present-day Honduras

Yohl Ikʼnal

Yohl Ik’nal – meaning Lady Heart Wind Place – was the first recorded Mayan queen, ruling from late 583 until late 604.

Chuqui Huipa

Chuqui Huipa was a sixteenth-century princess and later coya (queen or empress consort) of the Incan Empire