Materials generated by Ana M. Montano-Herrera, a California-based art curator, photographer, and visual artist who has exhibited locally in the Bay Area of California and internationally in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico from 1970 to the year 2000.

Ana M. Montano-Herrera was born in 1952 in San Salvador, El Salvador. In 1958, she emigrated to San Francisco, California with her mother where they lived on 24th Street in the Mission District. She attended City College of San Francisco (CCSF), San Francisco State University and later the San Francisco Art Institute. Her postgraduate includes an M.A. in Museum Management from Golden Gate University, and a Juris Doctor from University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Having come of age within the creative, dynamic, social, cultural, and political environment of San Francisco's Mission District, Ana Montano developed a deeply rooted commitment to social justice and advocated for the rights of the underrepresented throughout her legal career. She also acquired a passion for the visual arts based on her multi-racial, immigrant, feminist, Latina identity.

10.47 Linear Feet (3 document boxes, 7 flat file folders, 12 videotapes, 2 audiocassettes, 8 moving image reels)

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