Erika De La Cruz | |
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 De La Cruz at the San Diego Film Awards | |
| Alma mater | San Diego State University |
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| Spouse | Jock Purtle (m. 2019) |
| Website | erikadelacruz |
Erika De La Cruz is a Mexican-American TV host, bestselling author and media personality best known for The LA Girl and Passionistas: Tips Tales & Tweetables from Women Pursuing their Dreams.
De La Cruz started her career as brand ambassador of Fashion Week San Diego [1] and covering radio events for KIFM, easy 98.1. [2] She founded Passion to Paycheck, [3] which addresses mental health awareness, [4] and is the author of the bestseller Passionistas: Tips Tales & Tweetables from Women Pursuing their Dreams. [5] [6] [7] De La Cruz works with Connected Women of Influence, Susan G. Komen and is a keynote SUE Talks speaker. [8] [9] She was cast on Dream Life with Caitlyn Jenner. [10]
The LA Girl was founded in 2014. After five years, the original founder was pursuing other goals and asked De La Cruz if she wanted the job. In 2021, De La Cruz became editor in chief. [11] [3]
De La Cruz is a Mexican-American [11] who was raised in Northern California. [5] With a background in red carpet hosting, [12] she graduated with a film and fashion degree from San Diego State University. [8] In 2019, De La Cruz married tech CEO Jock Purtle. [13]
Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress. Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards.
Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, was a colonial Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, as well as a Hieronymite nun, nicknamed "The Tenth Muse" and "The Phoenix of America" by her contemporary critics. As a Spanish-criolla from the New Spain, she was among the main American-born contributors to the Spanish Golden Age, alongside Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and Garcilaso de la Vega "el Inca", and is presently considered one of the most important female authors in Spanish language literature and the literature of Mexico.
Nilo Cruz is a Cuban-American playwright and pedagogue. With his award of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Anna in the Tropics, he became the second Latino so honored, after Nicholas Dante.
Mieres is a municipality of Asturias, northern Spain, with approximately 38,000 inhabitants. The municipality of Mieres is made up of the capital, Mieres del Camino and the villages of Baiña, Figaredo, Cenera, Loredo, La Peña, La Rebollada, Santullano, Santa Rosa, Seana, Ujo, Urbies, Valdecuna, Santa Cruz, Ablaña, Turón, Gallegos, Bustiello.
Ann J. Simonton is an American writer, lecturer, media activist, and former fashion model. She founded and coordinates the non-profit group "Media Watch", which challenges what they see as racism, sexism, and violence in the media through education and action. Simonton has published two autobiographical chapters, I Never Told Anyone and Her Wits About Her. She has also written and produced two educational videos, one of which, Don't Be a TV: Television Victim, received a Silver Apple Award from the National Educational Video and Film Festival in 1995.
Mónica Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress and dancer. She is the younger sister of actress Penélope Cruz. She has appeared in the films The Inquiry (2006), Last Hour (2008), Jerry Cotton (2010) and Iron Cross (2011).
Melissa de la Cruz is a Filipina-American writer known for young adult fiction. Her young-adult series include Au Pairs, the Blue Bloods, and The Beauchamp Family.
Anna Benjamin David is an American publisher, author, speaker, podcast host, and television personality.
Ximena Valero is a Mexican fashion designer and winner of the 2007 International Award for Designer of the Year for Excellence in Evening Wear at Miami's Fashion Week. She is known for introducing Transformable Fashion and has dressed a number of celebrities. Valero made her name in Tijuana and now lives in Los Angeles. She was recently featured as a designer and judge on The Fashion Hero.
Delma S. Arrigoitia was a historian, author, educator, and lawyer whose written works covered the life and works of some of Puerto Rico's most prominent politicians of the early 20th century. After earning her doctorate in history at Fordham University in New York, she helped develop the graduate school for history at the University of Puerto Rico and taught there for many years.
Ruth Hayward, is an engineer, sculptor, and philanthropist. She is also known for her sculptures of public figures in San Diego. A lifelong resident of San Diego, in 1987 she was honored with a Tribute to Women & Industry (TWIN) award by the YWCA for her work as an engineer at General Dynamics/Electronics and as a volunteer at Rachel's Women's Center for the homeless.
Sandra Maas is an American television news anchor. She has worked in the San Diego, California area since 1990 and is the founding host of the Trailblazing Women video series for the Women’s Museum of California. She has won a regional Emmy Award.
Christina Marie Burkenroad Sandoval is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga MX Femenil club CF Monterrey. In January 2016, she was drafted by the Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League. Born and raised in the United States to an American father and a Mexican mother, she plays for the Mexico women's national team.
Judith Munk was an American artist and designer associated with Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She was inducted into the San Diego Women's Hall of Fame posthumously, in 2008.
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated that more than 181,399 people were experiencing homelessness in California in January 2023. This represents more than 27% of the homeless population of the United States even though California has slightly less than 12% of the country's total population, and is one of the highest per capita rates in the nation, with 0.46% of residents being homeless. More than two-thirds of homeless people in California are unsheltered, which is the highest percentage of any state in the United States. 49% of the unsheltered homeless people in the United States live in California: about 123,423 people, which is eight times as many as the state with the second highest total. Even those who are sheltered are so insecurely, with 90% of homeless adults in California reporting that they spent at least one night unsheltered in the past six months.
Paraíso Travel is a Colombian telenovela that premiered on RCN Televisión on 29 January 2018, and concluded on 4 May 2018 based on the book of the same name by the Colombian author Jorge Franco. It stars Laura Londoño and Sebastián Eslava as the titular's character.
Jesse Thistle is a Métis-Cree author and assistant professor in the department of humanities at York University in Toronto. He is the author of the internationally best-selling memoir, From the Ashes.From the Ashes is considered one of the "most notable" 100 books Simon and Schuster U.S and all its 31 international imprints has published between 1924-2024, and the only Canadian book to make the list over the publisher's history. Thistle is also a PhD candidate in the history program at York University, where he is working on theories of intergenerational, historic trauma, and survivance of road allowance Métis people. This work, which involves reflections on his own previous struggles with addiction and homelessness, has been recognized as having wide impact on both the scholarly community and the greater public.
Katya Celeste Echazarreta González is a Mexican electrical engineer, science communicator, and Citizen Astronaut. She became the first Mexican-born woman in space as part of Space for Humanity's Citizen Astronaut Program, launched June 4, 2022.
Emilia Cruz is a Mexican-American artist known for her oil and acrylic paintings depicting women of color in nature.