Rita Sanchez (born May 20, 1937 in San Bernardino, California)[1] is an American academic in the field of Chicana/o studies.
[2] Rita Sanchez was born in San Bernardino on May 20, 1937, the seventh of eleven children.
The gallery primarily showed works by Chicano artists, but also included art from Latin America and Native American art from the southwestern U.S.[1][5][6] Sanchez returned to teaching again in 1990, joining the faculty at San Diego Mesa College.
She married one of her academic collaborators, Richard Griswold del Castillo, in 2005.
[1][4][5] Sanchez was inducted into the San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame in 2011 for her dedicated activism.