President Joe Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to 19 recipients this year. The cohort that includes two Latinas: Ellen Ochoa and Teresa Romero.
Ochoa was the first Hispanic woman in space and the second female director of NASA's Johnson Space Center, while Romero is the president of the United Farm Workers and the first Latina to become president of a national union in the United States.
