Luz Jiménez

As a young woman she witnessed the Mexican Revolution, and was present when Emiliano Zapata and his revolutionary army entered Milpa Alta in 1911.

Among others she worked with Benjamin Lee Whorf who credits her in his description of Milpa Alta Nahuatl.

She also worked as a model for artists Fernando Leal and Diego Rivera and her portrait can be seen in at least three of his murals, one of them the famous Tlatelolco market scene.

In 1942, she started work as a model at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" (National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking) in Frida Kahlo's classes.

As the godparents of her daughter Concha, Jean Charlot and Anita Brenner were her compadres.