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Margarita Muñiz

Margarita Muñiz (1950-2011) worked in Boston Public Schools for 39 years, 30 of them as the principal of the Rafael Hernandez School, the premier dual language school in Massachusetts.

Myrna Vázquez

Renowned Puerto Rican actress

Activist who co-founded Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA) in 1968 to develop and now maintain Villa Victoria, a subsidized housing community built on a parcel of city land slated for urban renewal. IBA promotes the social and economic well being of Villa Victoria’s residents with programs that support the arts, especially expressi

Apolinaria Lorenzana

One of very few women in California to receive a land grant in her own name in the early 1800s

Martha Vogel

Mexican short story writer and novelist

Dr Asunción Rangel

Mexican writer, editor, researcher and professor.

Bidu Sayão

Brazilian operatic soprano

Alaíde Ventura Medina

Mexican anthropologist, writer and editor.

María Feliciana Arballo

María Feliciana Arballo, a 25-year-old widow of Afro-Latina descent with two small children, was one of about forty women in the Anza expedition when it began its colonizing journey from Sonora, Mexico to Alta California (upper California) in 1775.