Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital Paulo Lozano – aerospace engineer at MIT and pioneer in the field of micro-propulsion Eloy Rodriguez (born 1947) – biochemist, professor at Cornell University Sarah Stewart (1905–1976) – pioneered the field of viral oncology research Tedy Taylor (1925–2004) – theoretical physicist and nuclear weapon designer Ignacio Tinoco Jr. (1930–2016) – chemist and professor Jorge Gardea-Torresdey – chemist and academic Nora Volkow (born 1956) – scientist, physician, psychiatrist, great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky and director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Civil rights leaders and community activists Lucy G. Acosta (1926–2008) – civil rights activist Gaylon Alcaraz (born 1970) – community organizer, human rights activist Lupe Anguiano (born 1929) – civil rights activist Lorena Borjas (1960–2020) – Mexican-born American transgender and immigrant rights activist, known as the mother of the transgender Latinx community in Queens, New York Norma V. Cantu (born 1954) – civil rights lawyer and college professor Carlos Cadena (1917–2001) – attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas supreme court case Adelfa Botello Callejo (1923–2014) – civil rights lawyer José Tomás Canales (1877–1976) – civil rights activist and politician active during the early 1900s, played key role in the foundation of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Aurora Castillo (1914–1998) – environmental activist Sal Castro (1933–2013) – civil rights activist and educator Ernesto Chacon (born 1938) – Latino and low income civil rights activist César Chávez (1927–1993) – labor leader and activist Linda Chavez-Thompson (born 1944) – former executive vice-president of the AFL–CIO Miguel Contreras (1952–2005) – labor leader Jeanne Córdova (1948–2016) – lesbian and gay rights activist, writer Bert Corona (1918–2001) – labor and community organizer Ricardo Cruz (1943–1993) – attorney, civil rights activist Jessie Lopez De La Cruz (1919–2013) – labor organizer Maria Echaveste (born 1954) – former White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Josefina Fierro de Bright (1914–1998) – civil rights activist during The Great Depression Nick Fuentes – white nationalist, far-right political commentator and podcaster. Paternal grandfather was Mexican Ernesto Galarza (1905–1984) – labor activist, professor, and writer Gustavo C. Garcia (1915–1964) – attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas supreme court case Hector P. Garcia (1914–1996) – physician, veteran, and civil rights advocate Eva Carrillo de García (1883–1979) –