About: Clotilde Betances Jaeger

Clotilde Betances Jaeger (born 1890, died circa 1970) was a feminist writer and journalist of New York's Puerto Rican intellectual community during the mid-twentieth century. She advocated for Hispanic women's rights. Once a teacher and a lifetime educational advocate, she pushed for minority children's education in New York and supported educational reforms in Puerto Rico. Betances Jaeger provided important challenges to US imperialism and white supremacist feminism coming from the US at the time. She is most famous for her written work in newspapers and journals in Puerto Rico and New York, though she was also featured in other Latin American and European publications. Betances Jaeger was also the grand-niece of Ramón Emeterio Betances, a famous independence leader of Puerto Rico.