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The Google Doodle on Wednesday honored pioneering Hispanic nurse Dr. Ildaura Murillo-Rohde.
The illustration created by guest artist Loris Lora depicts the late medical professional and educator in a diverse hospital setting as she holds onto a notebook.
Murillo-Rohde made strides in her career and founded the National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN) — originally named Spanish Speaking/Spanish Surnamed Nurses' Caucus — in 1975 to help others underrepresented in the profession, according to the organization.
Lora spoke to Google about why she chose to depict the Panamanian nurse during National Hispanic Heritage Month, which began on Sept. 15.
Lora continued, "I was inspired by her story and her Panamanian background. The colors on this Doodle were inspired by Latin American textiles and orchid flowers (my research found that she always wore an orchid at NAHN conferences)."
The artist added that she hopes the Doodle "sparks curiosity of who this woman was so more people learn about her achievements and how she has been influential to the Hispanic nursing community—and to Latinx communities, in general."
Murillo-Rohde was born in Panama on Sept. 6, 1920 where she later died in 2010 a day shy of her 90th birthday.
At age 25, the nurse moved from her home country to San Antonio, Texas where she discovered the lack of Hispanic nurses in the predominantly Hispanic city, according to the NAHN.
This discovery sparked her desire to get a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing at New York's Columbia University and later a Masters and Doctorate degree at New York University — the latter of which was a first for any Hispanic at NYU.
"I saw that I was the only Hispanic nurse who was going to Washington [D.C.] to work with the federal government, review research and education grants, etc.," Murillo-Rohde once said, according to the New York Academy of Medicine. "I looked behind me and thought: 'Where are my people?'"
Over the course of her career, Murillo-Rohde became the first Hispanic Associate Dean at the University of Washington and first Hispanic Dean at the School of Nursing at NYU, according to the Second Edition of the Nursing Leadership encyclopedia.
"Dr. Rohde always inspired all who knew her," NAHN wrote in her biography.
The organization later developed a scholarship in her name for young Hispanic nursing students to continue on Murillo-Rohde's legacy.
Read more: https://people.com/health/google-doodle-honors-dr-ildaura-murillo-rohde-who-founded-the-national-association-of-hispanic-nurses/
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Alebrijes are Mexican folk art sculptures, made with bright colors, and are a mix of fantasy and mythical creatures.
Mexican artist Pedro Linares, from Mexico City, originally came up with this idea in the 1930s. He fell ill and dreamt of a strange place similar to a forest, where he saw strange looking rocks, clouds, and other items that suddenly turned into strange animals. They were a mix of fantasy and mythical creatures with elements from different animals, such as dragon bodies, bat wings, and cat eyes. All of them were shouting one word: ¡Alebrijes!
Once he recovered, he began creating these creatures he saw out of strips of paper. They later went on to be made from papier-mâché. A gallery owner in Cuernavaca noticed his work, and then later, famous artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera also took interest in what he was creating.
In the 1980s, a British Filmmaker organized a Mexican art workshop with Linares as well as other artists from Oaxaca. These Oaxacan artists came up with a new way to make alebrijes from wood, as that was a popular material used for carving art pieces in the areas they were from. They used a local wood called copal, which is said to be magical.
So many artists have gone on to create various versions of alebrijes in their own styles, that alebrijes have since become a huge part of Mexico's folk art repository.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alebrije