Topic by Category: Academics/Educator

Dr. Ana Jimenez is the Founder and Executive Director of the Orange County Children’s Therapeutic Arts Center, a community-based organization in Santa Ana dedicated to empowering at-risk youth and children with special needs through Arts, Literacy and Therapeutic programs.

Dr. Silvia Martinez, assistant professor at Howard University. Silvia has focused her professional work on effective service delivery to bilinguals in the health and education arenas.

Award-winning author and professor Norma Elia Cantú is a Chicana postmodernist writer and a professor of English and U.S. Latina/o Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Elena Diaz Bjorkquist is a Mexican American writer, historian, and artist from Tucson. Elena’s two books of short stories, Suffer Smoke and Water from the Moon, are about the people in Morenci, Arizona where she was born.

Nancy Marmolejo, Mexican-German Cultural Hybrid, is an Information Marketer and CEO of VivaVisibility, a company that teaches PR, media and networking strategy.

Naomi Helena Quinonez, Chicana poet and educator, is an American studies scholar and a Latina cultural advocate.

Raquel Aldana, Human Rights Lawyer, Law Professor and author of Everyday Law for Latinos. Raquel was born in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan father and a Salvadoran mother.

Elma Gonzalez, cell biologist, Professor Emeritus at UCLA, and the fourth Chicana to ever receive a Ph.D. in the sciences.

Nancy Mirabal, Historian, Scholar and Professor. She’s run oral history projects, published extensively and currently teaches in the Raza Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Nancy’s parents are Cuban immigrants.