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Puerto Rican women and women of Puerto Rican descent have continued to join the Armed Forces, and some have even made the military a career. Among the Puerto Rican women who have or had high ranking positions are the following: Lieutenant Colonel Olga E. Custodio (USAF) became the first Hispanic female U.S. military pilot. She holds the ...
Puerto Rican women and women of Puerto Rican descent have continued to join the Armed Forces, and some have even made the military a career. Colonel Maritza Sáenz Ryan (U.S. Army) is the head of the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy.
First Puerto Rican female athlete to turn professional, [56] first Puerto Rican woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal, and the first to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. [57] Lisa Fernández, softball player. Olympic gold medalist. Maritza Correia, athlete. First black Puerto Rican woman in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Team.
In 1963, the New York Daily News ran stories about an underground, word-of-mouth network of doctors in Puerto Rico who performed abortions on American women, from “suburban society matrons” to ...
Ana Irma Rivera Lassén was born on 13 March 1955 in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico to Ana Irma Lassén and Eladio Rivera Quiñones, [1] who were both educators. At the age of sixteen, she became involved with feminism, joining the Comité de Mujeres Puertorriqueñas (Puerto Rican Women's Committee) [2] and then helping to found the Mujer Integrate Ahora (MIA) (Women Integrate Now) [3 ...
In 1992, she founded the Ballet Folklorico Borikèn, the Puerto Rican folk ballet. [1] [2] Custodio is a Trustee of the Order of Daedalians Foundation, a Board Member and Treasurer for the Women in Aviation Alamo City Chapter and Board Member for the Dee Howard Foundation.
Puerto Rican women centenarians (5 P) Pages in category "Puerto Rican women" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
She was the first person of Hispanic heritage and the first of approximately 200 Puerto Rican women who would serve in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. [2] The unit arrived in Northern Africa on January 27, 1943, and rendered overseas duties in Algiers, in General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s theatre headquarters. The women who served ...