Women’s Hall of Fame Inducts 7 New Members – Educators, Artists, Activists, More

The annual San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Reception Saturday honors seven women and their positive impact on San Diego. 

The ceremony, at 10 a.m. at the Joan Kroc Theatre in Rolando, will include a posthumous honor for Yolanda López, who died in 2021. The feminist, artist, activist, educator, film producer and printmaker was a Chicano studies scholar.

The other inductees are:

• Raye Clendening – a teacher, award-winning administrator and co-founder and board member of the North County African American women’s Association.
• Anne Evans – a hotelier and award winner for civic leadership on boards and at UC San Diego to support education, health care and to empower San Diego women.
• Anne S. Bautista – a teacher and Director of Legal Support and Strategy at Casa Cornelia Law Center, specializing in gender-based violence cases in marginalized communities.
• Andrea Naversen – award-winning documentarian, author, journalist, TV news anchor and editor-at-large of Ranch & Coast Magazine.
• Dr. Olga Diaz – the first woman of color elected to the Escondido City Council, and a civic leader for gender, racial and ethnic social justice. 
• Dr. DJ Kuttin Kandi – the hiphop DJ scholar is a disabled, queer, Filipino Pinay/Pinax American writer, poet, theater performer, educator and community organizer.

Tickets for the event start at $15. Proceeds benefit the Women’s Museum of California.

The Women’s Hall of Fame operates as program of the museum in partnership with the San Diego State University Department of Women’s Studies and the San Diego County Commission on the Status of Women and Girls.