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Historical Essay

Anita Herrera, 1935-2019

Anita Herrera grew up in a family of migrant farm workers and devoted her career to improving education, employment, and living conditions for people of color in Wisconsin.
Historical Essay

Ramona Villarreal, 1954 -

Ramona Villarreal is a Mexican American activist who has devoted her life to fighting for equality and justice for people with Mexican/Latinx heritage in Wisconsin.
Historical Essay

Maria Luisa Morales, 1944 -

Maria Luisa Morales has worked for justice for Latinx communities in Wisconsin since the 1960s
Historical Essay

Debra Amesqua, 1951 -

Amesqua, who became Madison’s first woman fire chief in 1996, was only the seventh woman in the country to lead a fire department
Historical Essay

Camille Guerin-Gonzales, 1945 - 2015

Directed the UW–Madison’s Chicana and Latina Studies Program, was devoted to justice for working people.

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