Hispanic Heritage

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_____________ became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history.

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Sonia Sotomayor

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_____________ was the first Latina to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Westside Story.

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Rita Moreno

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__________________ had been nominated for multiple Academy Awards before becoming the first Mexican director to win an Oscar for his 2013 drama, Gravity. His other work includes A Little Princess, Y Tu Mamá También, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and science fiction thrillers like Children of Men

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Alfonso Cuarón

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__________________ was one of the most beloved baseball players in the history of the sport thanks to his strong batting average and philanthropic efforts off the field. The Puerto Rican right fielder became the first Latin American and Caribbean player to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame after his untimely death in 1972.

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Roberto Clemente

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_______________ penned her way to fame with books like How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. She is considered one of the most significant and successful Latina-American writers of her generation and is credited with paving the way for contemporaries like Junot Diaz.

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Julia Alvarez

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_______________ became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on the nine-day STS-56 mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery. She would go on to venture to space four times, logging nearly 1,000 hours in orbit before returning to Earth to make history again, this time as the Johnson Space Center’s first Hispanic director and only its second female director.

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Dr. Ellen Ochoa

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____________________ lyrical talent, love of traditional Broadway tunes, and fondness for hip hop helped catapult his musical to new heights and earned him a Pulitzer Prize, two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and multiple Tony Awards.

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Lin Manuel Miranda

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______________________ became the third U.S.-born Latina athlete to make the U.S. women’s gymnastics Olympic team during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. The New Jersey native wowed fans with her energetic routines and powerhouse tumbling, helping the U.S. to take home the gold in the women’s gymnastics team competition.

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Laurie Hernandez

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_______________ was regarded as a feminist icon for her creativity and political activism. She was the first Mexican artist to be featured in the Louvre and Mexico has declared her works national cultural heritage, prohibiting their export from the country.

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Frida Kahlo

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Born to a family of migrant workers in Arizona, ___________________ made it his life’s goal to improve working conditions of farm workers through nonviolent protests and the National Farm Workers Association. He led marches, called for boycotts and went on several hunger strikes. He also brought national awareness to the dangers of pesticides to workers' health.

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Cesar Chavez