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Nuestra colaboración se extiende al desarrollo de la mujer en diversos ámbitos: económico, ambiental, educación, empoderamiento, desarrollo sostenible, salud, cultura, educación científica y tecnológica.
Our collaboration extends to the development of women in various areas: economic, environmental, education, empowerment, sustainable development, health, culture, science and technology education.
International Recognition - Woman of the Year, New York 2025
Opening ceremony by Rosalía Arteaga Serrano and Honorable Judge Carmen Velasquez
QCC ART GALLERY - CUNY MUSEUM
TUESDAY, MARCH 11TH
Exhibition in Tribute to the Master Estuardo Maldonado: "From Pre-Columbian to Dimensionalism" Master and disciple. Special donation from the members of the Estuardo Maldonado Foundation New York
Coordinator:
Monica Sarmiento-Archer Ph.D
Director of Estuardo Maldonado Foundation and bi/Coa: Bicultural Community of The Americas New York
Advisory team:
Claudia Arteaga, Executive Director Fidal Foundation, EcoMuseo
Faustino Quintanilla, Director of QCC Art Gallery - CUNY Museum
Maria Elena López, Executive Director, RAW The Glocal Women Foundation
Antonio Morales, President of La Nacional Spanish Benevolent Society
Meet our women honorees
Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against the president Salvador Allende. In London, she was a co-founder of Artists for Democracy in l974. She coined the term “Arte Precario” in the mid-1960s in Chile. Vicuña has re-invented the ancient Pre-Columbian quipu (knot in Quechua) system of non-writing with knots through ritual acts that weave the urban landscape, rivers and oceans, as well as people, envisioned as poems in space.
Rhina Espaillat is a poet, essayist, and bilingual translator. Born in the Dominican Republic in 1933, her family fled to the United States to settle in New York City in 1939. She began writing bilingual poetry as a young girl and has published numerous poetry and prose collections in both languages. She received the T.S. Eliot (1998) and the Richard Wilbur (2001) awards. In 2018, Salem State College granted her its Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2024 she accepted the Order of Duarte, Sánchez y Mella, the highest award granted by the Dominican Government to its citizens. More on the poet at: Rhina P. Espaillat | The Poetry Foundation.
Joanne Pillsbury is the Andrall E. Pearson Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.A specialist in the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas, Joanne Pillsbury (PhD, Columbia University) was previously associate director of the Getty Research Institute and director of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. She has published widely, including Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530–1900; the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award recipients Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks (2012) and Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art (2022); and Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas (2012), which was awarded the Association for Latin American Art Book Award. Her 2017 exhibition catalogue, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas (prepared with Timothy Potts and Kim Richter), was the winner of a PROSE Award for Excellence.
Carmen Boullosa (México, 1954), escritora. Premios (en México) Villaurrutia, Ibargüengoitia, Pacheco, Arredondo y Tablada; en Alemania el Liberatur, y el Anna Seghers; en Madrid el Café Gijón de novela y el Casa de América de poesía. Becaria Guggenheim, del Cullman Center, Centro Mexicano de Escritores y del sistema nacional de creadores. Escritora residente de la DAAD en Berlín. Profesora en Macaulay Honors College, CUNY. Profesora visitante distinguida en Columbia, Georgetown, SDSU, Blaise Pascal; Cátedra Andrés Bello en NYU, Alfonso Reyes en la Sorbona, y Distinguished Lecturer en City College, CUNY. Recibió siete NY-EMMYs. Por el Programa NUEVA YORK. ISDVA Honores Causa, y Fellow”de NYHI.
Nuria Morgado, nacida en Barcelona, España, es catedrática de estudios hispánicos en la City University of New York (CUNY) y destaca como investigadora, conferencista, crítica literaria y editora. Su investigación en el ámbito de las literaturas y culturas hispánicas transita las fronteras de los estudios culturales, comparativos e interdisciplinarios, aportando siempre una visión filosófica crítica y renovadora. En marzo de 2024, Nuria Morgado hizo historia al convertirse en la primera mujer en dirigir la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE). Con una trayectoria marcada por su compromiso con las letras hispánicas, también lidera como directora y editora general del Boletín de la ANLE (BANLE), reafirmando su impacto en el panorama cultural y académico.
Giannina Braschi is “one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin America” declared PEN America. She is the iconic Puerto Rican author of the epic poem El imperio de los sueños, the classic Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing!, and the geopolitical tragicomedy Estados Unidos de Banana on the collapse of the American empire and the liberation of Puerto Rico, inspired by Calderon de la Barca’s Life is Dream. Her magnus opus PUTINOIKA is a multi-genre epic, offering a biting and hilarious denunciation of Trump’s America, based of Euripides' Bacchae. The U.S. Library of Congress calls Giannina Braschi “cutting-edge, influential, and revolutionary.” Photos below by Laurent Elie Badessi
Luchia Meihua Lee, M.A., M. Phil. is the founding Executive Director of the Taiwanese American Arts Council (TAAC) and a distinguished independent curator, cultural organizer, and arts writer with over two decades of experience. Based in New York City, Lee has dedicated her career to supporting and promoting diverse artists and fostering cross-cultural understanding through contemporary art. In renowned media outlets such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Before founding TAAC in 2014, Lee held key roles as Director and Chief Curator of the Exhibition Department at the National Taiwan Museum of Art, Cultural Specialist at Taiwan’s Council for Cultural Affairs, and Curator at the Taipei Gallery in New York’s Rockefeller Center.
Victoria Zhang is the author of "The Crown of Thorns”. In China, as the soul-mate of a dissident writer, she fought for freedom of speech and human rights and resists authoritarian persecution. In the USA, she served for a College as an educator to help countless new immigrants enter mainstream American society. She is the president of Kunlun Press and CEO of Borderless Culture & Art Center now. She assists in the overseas publication and global distribution of works banned in authoritarian and totalitarian countries that cannot be published due to censorship. Her mission is: To embrace cultural traditions, preserve social and historical memory, build human solidarity, call for world peace, uphold social justice, prosper community culture, and promote social civilization.
Summer Schneider has experience coaching and managing dozens of teachers and other school staff with consideration and focus on rigorous academics and strong school culture. In the year leading up to the opening of Legacy, she completed a year-long fellowship with Building Excellent Schools (BES) focused on charter school design and leadership. Mrs. Schneider started her career in education as a Teach For America corps member in St. Louis teaching high school math and served as the Math Department Chair at Soldan International Studies. Outside of her school-based experience, Mrs. Schneider has a BS in Business Economics and a BS in Business Administration from the University of Kentucky. She also has a MA in Secondary Mathematics Instruction from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Ingrid Echeverría, abogada nació en San Miguel, El Salvador. Emigró a los Estados Unidos a la edad de 12 años. Ha ejercido la abogacía durante los últimos 16 años. Es comentarista en la Cadena Televisiva Hispana Telemundo como experta en leyes de inmigración durante los últimos 3 años. Se ha ganado el respeto y la admiración de la comunidad latina debido a su incansable defensa de los inmigrantes indocumentados. Defiende exitosamente a clientes en procedimientos de deportación en los estados de Nueva Jersey, Nueva York, Pensilvania, Connecticut y Maryland. Dirige un exitoso bufete de abogados con oficinas en West New York, Dover y North Plainfield. Su práctica se enfoca en litigios migratorios, matrimoniales, inmobiliarios y civiles. Su constante e inflexible lucha por los derechos de la comunidad migrante le ha valido los sobrenombres de “Ángel de los Migrantes” y “Embajadora de los Latinos”.
María Guillen, Ecuadorian, María immigrated to the United States in 1980 looking to get ahead and continue in her career and to achieve success. In a country where individuals make their own opportunities, Maria faced many obstacles, but she never lost faith in herself and keeping her dreams in sight, Maria continued to pursue her goals. Beginning her university studies in Ecuador, Maria continued her academic preparation at Baruch University, a university in the City of New York. Her perseverance and dedication allowed her to embark on a successful career in banking. His tenacity and commitment gave him the flexibility to try various positions within the banking field. She was promoted as the Vise-assistant chair of the residential mortgage lending department.
Press Releases
We would like to express our special thanks to the press for their coverage of the event, especially to:
bi/Coa coordinator: "Woman of the Year 2025", New York RAW Rosalia Arteaga Foundation
Video Lcdo. Gustavo Espinoza: Noticias Hudson Valley NY
Victoria Freire Press Correspondent Cultura Press España
Press Release / Nota de prensa: QueensLatino.com
International Recognition - Woman of the Year, New York 2024
La Nacional, Spanish Benevolent Society NYC
Meet our women honorees
Hon. Carmen Velasquez is a Supreme Court Justice serving in the 11th district of the State of New York since January 2015. She has also served as judge for the New York City Civil Court of Queens County previously to her election. Justice Carmen Velasquez emigrated from her native country of Ecuador at age 14. Without speaking a single word of English, she began her formal studies with a goal towards becoming an attorney. Justice Carmen Velasquez was a founding member and Past President to Latino Lawyers of Queens County, was Co-Chair of the Judicial Council of the Hispanic National Bar Association, and was Vice-President of the Latino Judges Association. Justice Velasquez is presently an Advisory Board member of the Latino Lawyers Association, Immediate Past President of the Association of Supreme Court Justices of the State of NY, G-100 Global Chair,Committee.
Dr. : Pachauri, MD, PhD, DPH, is a Director & Climate-Health Mentor of the POP Movement, where POP stands for Protect Our Planet. As a public health physician, Dr. Pachauri has been extensively engaged with research on family planning, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV and AIDS, and poverty, gender and youth. In 1996, she joined as Regional Director, South and East Asia, Population Council and established its regional office in New Delhi which she managed until 2014. In 2011, she was awarded the prestigious title of Distinguished Scholar, an honor rarely bestowed. She has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Maharishi International University, Iowa in 2022.
Helen Arteaga is Chief Executive Officer at New York City Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst. She is the former Assistant Vice President, Queens Network and Executive Initiatives at Urban Health Plan, a network of community health centers located in three boroughs in New York City. Helen is Ecuadorian and a long-time resident of Corona, Queens. Helen grew up understanding the role that health care had on a community. She dreamed of establishing a community health center that would provide quality health care to local residents. Following the death of her community activist father, she set out to build that health center in her beloved Corona. Working with Our Lady of Sorrows Church and other community leaders, she sought out Paloma Hernandez, the President and CEO of Urban Health Plan, Inc., to make her dream a reality.
Tonie McKenzie (Tonie Jade Deleon McKenzie) is a researcher and primary care doctor at the Institute for Family Health. A native of Jamaica and raised in Brooklyn, she attended Midwood High School and subsequently received her Bachelor's in Biology at the Johns Hopkins University. After taking some time off to teach high school students, she went back to school to get her medical degree from Stony Brook University School of Medicine. Currently, she is pursuing her Master’s in Public health policy and management at the CUNY School of Public Health. Her other passions include writing for her blog and spending time with her children.
Myriam de Arteni (Myriam Sanchez-Posada de Arteni ) Former Senior Exhibition Conservator for The New York Public Library, was educated in Colombia, Italy (Rome and Florence) and the United States (New York and Rochester). Conservator of artifactual books, manuscripts, and art on paper. Researcher in the areas of the history of papermaking, materials and methods of writing and printing media and conservation treatment theory and practice. She has been working for 47 years for the New York Public Library as Art Conservator and Senior Exhibitions Conservator. She has pursued studies in Fine Arts (Master) , Art History and Conservation of Works of Art (specializing in conservation of works on paper) bookbinding and printing she authored numerous published papers on conservations and materials and techniques of art. She is co-founder of Sol Invictus Press (1992).
Susanne Mikhail Eldhagen (Egypt/Sweden) is the Regional Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) for the Arab States. In this capacity, she leads UN Women’s normative, programme and coordination work in the Middle East and North Africa. Susanne brings with her over 25 years of experience in development and humanitarian work in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Before, UN Women, she was the Director of Humanitarian Aid at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Susanne is a strong advocate for peaceful resolutions of conflict through diplomatic engagements and building bridges. She has been recently supported “Bridging Cairo and New York” bringing female artists from Egypt, the US and others countries towards convergence through the arts. Susanne has previously received the Olof Palme Stipend for her work on preventive diplomacy, and has also received SIDAs Price “Guldspaden” for efficient financial management of resources, at the time when she managed SIDAs by far the largest portfolio of 16 billion SEK.
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, Ph.D. New York University, is Distinguished Professor of Spanish-American literature and culture at the Graduate Center and the City College, CUNY, where she co-directs the Cátedra Mario Vargas Llosa. She was the President of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI). Chang- Rodríguez was the co-anchor of “Charlando con Cervantes,” a program of interviews with prominent personalities from the Hispanic world sponsored by CUNY-TV and the Instituto Cervantes. She is an Honorary Associate of the Hispanic Society of America, Doctor Honoris Causa from the National and Kapodistriac University of Athens, Greece, “miembro correspondiente” of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua, the recipient of the “Enrique Anderson Imbert,” Career Achievement Award of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) and “miembro de número” of the ANLE, an affiliate of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language.
Dr. Harbeen Arora Rai, born in India, ALL Ladies League (ALL), Women Economic Forum (WEF), Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (WICCI), SHEconomy, G100 Club
Dr. Harbeen is the Founder of five free platforms viz. G100, ALL, WEF, SHEconomy and WICCI, ensuring women’s advancement in all walks of life with an integrated vision and inclusive values. With a powerful network of 500,000 women across 150 countries, and growing toward Mission Million 2024, these empowering ecosystems and sister platforms are among the largest global communities of women worldwide.
Marta Ana Diz, Ph.D. nació en Buenos Aires en 1942. Emigró a los Estados Unidos en 1967 y reside en Nueva York desde 1987. Enseñó literatura medieval, historia de la lengua, retórica y teoría literaria en la Universidad de Maryland (College Park) y en la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York (CUNY). Ha publicado dos libros dedicados a la literatura medieval: uno sobre El conde Lucanor (1984) y otro sobre el culto mariano del siglo XIII (1995); y una treintena de ensayos en revistas especializadas de Argentina, Chile, Colombia, España, Estados Unidos y México, en su mayoría sobre obras medievales y ocasionalmente sobre arte contemporáneo norteamericano. Es miembro de número de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) y correspondiente de la Real Academia Española.
Carmen Arboleda, Presidenta de Ecuador News, prensa que ha brindado servicio a la comunidad por aproximadamente 30 años. El periodico empezó con el Dr. Marcelo Arboleda Segovia involucrándose mucho en temas de la comunidad ecuatoriana. Era invitado habitual a todo tipo de celebraciones, incluyendo las de carácter político. Arboleda heredó tal talento y apoyaba todas las reuniones de ecuatorianos en el área tri-estatal, en una de las cuales conoció a Carmen Barrera, que también frecuentaba los salones sociales y ya había labrado un nombre de importancia en la ciudad. su ilusión era abrirse camino en Nueva York. Lo logró a plenitud desde el primer instante en que conoció a su esposo y desde ahí comenzaron a trabajar juntos informando a la comunidad a través de la presa.
Laura Fente González, Junior school specialist, Spanish teacher at the United Nations School, New York. Laura Fente, originally from Spain, graduated from her native country at the University of Granada, in 1988. Laura worked in the public schools at Los Angeles Unified School District, California, from 1989 to 2000, mainly with Hispanic students from disadvantaged social classes under the Bilingual Education Act (BEA) Program, also known as the Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education. Such a program recognized the needs of limited English speaking ability (LESA) students, and was designed to meet the special educational needs of elementary and secondary school students not fluent in the English language. It also recognized the need for and value of bilingual education programs in U.S. public education.
We would like to express our special thanks to the press for their coverage of the event, especially to:
bi/Coa coordinator: "Woman of the Year 2024", New York RAW Rosalia Arteaga Foundation
Video Lcdo. Gustavo Espinoza: Noticias Hudson Valley NY
Victoria Freire Press Correspondent Cultura Press España
Press Release / Nota de prensa: QueensLatino.com
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