Juana Bordas Born 1942 Inducted 1997 Juana Bordas arrived in the United States on a banana boat from Nicaragua at the age of three. As the first woman in her family to graduate from college, she built a career teaching leadership and empowerment skills to both women and people of color. As a Peace Corps volunteer, Bordas organized productive cooperatives with low-income women in Santiago, Chile. In Denver she created the successful Mi Casa Women’s Center, now recognized as a national model for women’s employment, training, and education. She was the first president of the National Hispana Leadership Institute, a group she helped to incorporate in 1987 while working with the Adolph Coors Company. She has served on several boards and commissions, has founded several women’s organizations, and has received many awards and honors for her leadership training. Bordas has also developed nationally used university-level leadership curricula, textbooks, and training programs.
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