page_title: List of Stateside Puerto Ricans
section_title: Educators
hierarchical_section_title: List of Stateside Puerto Ricans / Educators
caption_attribution_description: English: Astronaut Joseph Acaba, mission specialist
context_page_description: This is a list of Puerto Ricans in the United States, including people born in the US of Puerto Rican descent and Puerto Ricans who live in the US. Since Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the US, it is easier to migrate to the US from Puerto Rico than from anywhere else in Latin America. Currently, more than 5.5 million Puerto Ricans and their descendants live in the US, significantly more than the population of Puerto Rico itself. The following list contains notable members of the Puerto Rican community.
context_section_description: Joseph M. Acabá –  educator, hydrogeologist, and NASA astronaut; American of Puerto Rican parent
  Edwin David Aponte –  educator, author, religious leader, scholar of Latino religions and cultures; born in Connecticut to Puerto Rican parents
  Frank Bonilla (1925–2010) –  American academic of Puerto Rican descent who became a leading figure in Puerto Rican Studies.
  Ramón E. López –  American space physicist and author; played an instrumental role in the implementation of a hands-on science program in elementary and middle grades Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland
  Andres Ramos Mattei (1940–1987) –  Puerto Rican sugar industry historian; died in New Brunswick, New Jersey
  Carlos Albizu Miranda (1920–1984) –  first Hispanic educator to have a North American University renamed in his honor; one of the first Hispanics to earn a Ph.D. in Psychology in the US; Puerto Rican born and American raised
  Antonia Pantoja (1922–2002) –  educator, social worker, feminist, civil rights leader; founder of ASPIRA, the Puerto Rican Forum, Boricua College and Producir
  Ángel Ramos –  founder of the National Hispanic Council of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Superintendent of the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind; one of the few deaf people of Hispanic descent to earn a doctorate from Gallaudet University
  Carlos E. Santiago –  Puerto Rican American labor economist; 7th chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
  Ninfa Segarra –  last President of the New York City Board of Education
caption: Joseph M. Acaba
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