missionary, nurse, and civil-rights activist Oscar Gomez (activist) (died 1994) student activist Erika Guevara Rosas – human rights lawyer, Americas director at Amnesty International Anna Nieto-Gómez (born 1946) – activist and journalist Rodolfo Gonzales (1928–2005) – leader of the Chicano civil rights movement, boxer, poet José Ángel Gutiérrez (born 1944) – political activist, founder of the Raza Unida party, writer, and professor John J. Herrera (1910–1986) – civil rights leader Dolores Huerta (born 1930) – civil rights leader Jovita Idar (1885–1946) – journalist, political activist and civil rights worker Ralph Lazo (1924–1992) – advocated on behalf of Japanese American internment victims. Nativo Lopez (1951–2019) – civil rights activist Raul Loya – civil rights activist Mimi Lozano (born 1933) – co-founded the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research Angel G. Luévano (born 1949) – labor leader and activist Rueben Martinez (born 1940) – activist and businessman Vilma Socorro Martínez (born 1943) – civil rights activist, lawyer and diplomat Eliseo Medina (born 1946) – labor activist Enrique Morones – immigrant human rights activist Janet Murguía (born 1960) – civil rights activist Ernesto Nieto (born 1940) – founder of the National Hispanic Institute Alex Pacheco (born 1958) – activist Emiliano Reyes (born 1984) – business executive and humanitarian activist. He is of Mexican and Swedish descent. Julian Samora (1920–1996) – community activist, teacher, and scholar Leila Steinberg (born 1961) – educator dedicated to helping at-risk youth find their voice using an emotional literacy curriculum, best known as mentor of rapper Tupac Shakur. Olga Talamante (born 1950) – political activist Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) – labor organizer Reies López Tijerina (1926–2015) – activist, founder of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes John Trudell (1946–2015) – musician, author, poet, and political activist Cristina Tzintzún (born 1982) – organizer, author, and co-founder of the Workers Defense Project Baldemar Velasquez (born 1947) – president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee Gustavo Velasquez (born 1972) – Secretary of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Delia Villegas Vorhauer (1940–1992) – activist, social worker, and writer Vicente T. Ximenes (1919–2014) – civil rights activist, commissioner of EEOC, and chairman of first Presidential Cabinet on Mexican American Affairs Raul Yzaguirre (born 1939) – civil rights activist Religious figures Eusebio L. Elizondo Almaguer (born 1954) – Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle Oscar Cantú (born 1966) – Auxiliary Bishop in San Antonio, Texas. Minerva G. Carcaño (born 1954) –