Anna Nieto-Gomez

Who is Anna Nieto-Gomez?

Anna NietoGomez was a central part of the early Chicana movement and founded feminist journal, Encuentro Femenil, in which she and other Chicana writers addressed issues affecting the Latina community, such as childcare, reproductive rights, and the feminization of poverty.

In 1967, NietoGomez began attending California State University at Long Beach and became involved in the Mexican American students rights movement, founding Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, a feminist-centered Chicana newspaper. NietoGomez and the women's group, also named Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, who "took their name from a Mexican feminist organization that worked against the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship in Mexico," addressed issues ignored by the Chicano population, including those to do with gender and sexuality.

During this time NietoGomez was also involved in el Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán,. Though she was elected to president of the student organization, she was hung in effigy by male students who felt a woman should not represent their organization.