Title: 7 Influential Latinas Who Have Made Huge Contributions to Society
Headings: 7 Influential Latinas Who Have Made Huge Contributions to Society
7 Influential Latinas Who Have Made Huge Contributions to Society
Check out these Latina activists and astronauts in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Dolores Huerta, civil rights activist
Ellen Ochoa, astronaut
Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court justice
Rigoberta Menchú, human rights activist
Michelle Bachelet, president of Chile
Shakira, singer, dancer, producer
Soledad O’Brien, broadcast journalist and executive producer

Content: to be underestimated; to be proud and poderosa. Every year since 1968, Americans have observed National Hispanic Heritage Month from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of Latinos from all over. This Hispanic Heritage Month, Global Citizen is celebrating some of the most influential Latinas of our time — from civil rights activists to astronauts to journalists. Some have inspired corridos (ballads) and murals, others rally cries, and still others entire movements. They’ve rewritten the rules for thousands of young Latinas and taught them that no matter the obstacle, “si se puede.” Here are seven Latinas making the world a better place: Dolores Huerta, civil rights activist
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While teaching grammar school, Dolores Huerta noticed that many of her students showed up to class ill or malnourished. Her students’ strife inspired her to begin her lifelong crusade of correcting economic injustice. In 1962, the union leader and activist co-founded the first successful farm workers union in the United States, calling it the United Farm Workers.