Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - #19

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, human rights activist, and feminist. She studied History at San Francisco State, the University of California-Berkeley, and received her Ph.D. in History from University of California, Los Angeles. She taught at California State University and helped develop the Department of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies. Her activism has addressed global issues throughout Europe, Mexico, Cuba and the United States. Dr. Dunbar-Ortiz was involved in the Women's Separation Movement in Boston Massachusetts and subsequently traveled abroad to work with organizations such as the African National Congress. She was also involved in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the International Treaty Council. She helped advance AIM's efforts by working with the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Center and a UN working group called the Indigenous Peoples of the World. She later worked in writing reports at the U. N. in Geneva and aiding refugees’ in Central America. Dunbar-Ortiz also served as the Director of Native American Studies at UNM and co-creating the Institute for Native American Development.