In this Chautauqua presentation La Nina invites you share some private time in the library of her family home before her 70th birthday celebration in 1951.
Never timid about taking charge, she was superintendent of schools an organizer of Santa Fe Fiesta, Indian Market, Spanish Colonial Arts Society matriarch of her large family and hostess to her extensive social circle of artists, writers, historians, priests and politicians. Born into two of the most prosperous and prestigious families of the stateLos Luna and Los OteroNina moved to Santa Fe as a teenager and made it her home for a lifetime. Perhaps best remembered for her influential role in securing passage of the women's suffrage amendment by the New Mexico legislature, La Nina wasted no time before tossing her political chapeau into the ring and becoming the first woman in New Mexico to run for U.S. Educator, feminist, public welfare director, politician, businesswomanshe was all of these and more.
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