New York, former Deputy Mayor under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and she is currently a lobbyist with Toñio Burgos & Associates and is President of the National Puerto Rican Coalition in Washington, D.C.; Aída Álvarez, former director of the Small Business Administration under President Bill Clinton; Nelson Diaz, first Puerto Rican Solicitor General in Philadelphia; Jimmy Smits, Puerto Rican actor. Luis Guzmán, character actor Dr. Isaura Santiago Santiago (Ph.D., Fordham University), first tenured Puerto Rican woman at Columbia University and first Puerto Rican woman president of Hostos Community College of the City University of New York Digna Sanchez, who led such organizations as the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP), MADRE and Learning Leaders in New York City; she also worked at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund, the United Way of New York City, and the Children's Television Workshop. See also List of Puerto Ricans List of Puerto Rican Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients History of women in Puerto Rico References External links Our Founder Dr. Antonia Pantoja at ASPIRA Women Make Movies Documentary 1922 births 2002 deaths 20th-century American educators Puerto Rican LGBT people People from San Juan, Puerto Rico Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Puerto Rican educators Puerto Rican feminists Hunter College alumni Columbia University School of Social Work alumni 20th-century LGBT people