Antonia Pantoja was a formidable figure in the historical development of Puerto Rican and Latinx life in New York, Puerto Rico, California, and beyond during the second half of the 20th century. A black, queer, Puerto Rican educator, social worker, and foundational figure in the Puerto Rican community in postwar New York City, Pantoja established…
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Andrea Arroyo, is a self-taught visual artist born in Mexico, and residing in New York City since the 1980’s. Her works are in painting, illustration, site-specific installation, artists’ and children’s books, and public art. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally. She is also a curator focusing on women/gender issues, discrimination, immigration, and the state of…
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Born March 6, 1942, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Flora Purim began her career singing bossa nova before moving to New York City in 1967. Her unique singing style earned her the title of Queen of Brazilian jazz. Together with her husband, renowned percussionist Airto Moreira, they created their first major footprint as members of…
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La Chef Christina Ayala is from New Jersey and grew up with her brother an aeronautical engineer, speaking English and eating their father’s heritage foods of Puerto Rico. Ayala credits her mixed Filipino mother as an amazing cook from whom she learned and who inspired her to go into the business of cooking. She earned…
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*(Peru). I was born on St. Nicholas day with its resonances of childhood and gift. But my country was Lima and not Peru with its Arequipa from where my parents, also children of immigrants, came from. With that legacy of being doubly foreign, La Horrible never precipitated me to flee the country. And despite having…
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María Eugenia Speroni, is a musical comedy performer during summer and winter seasons in Argentina but also teaches at her alma mater The Julio Bocca Foundation. Born March 8, 1989, in the city of Mar de Plata, Argentina, 250 miles south of Buenos Aires where the center of night life is the summer and winter…
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Who but a strong, free and patriotic woman would enlist to be a soldier after having lost her husband and sons in battle to continue the fight for the independence of Argentina? Only a valiant heroine, an Afro-Argentine, who was dedicated to the fight for the independence of her country, and who was given the…
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