Sofia Quintero, Author, Divas Don’t Yield, Activist, Co-Founder, Chica Luna

“36-year-old “Ivy League homegirl” Sofia Quintero is an author, activist, and businesswoman who has transformed her passion for social change into her fiction, most recently with Divas Don’t Yield, a touching road trip novel featuring four outspoken, daring and diverse women-””Jackie, Hazel, Inez, and Lourdes””who travel across the United States to celebrate their graduation from Columbia. In the process, they confront each other on multiple levels, coming out about various secrets, learning each other’s foibles, and culminating in some powerful confrontations and friendships. Touching on issues of class, race, sexism and sexual orientation, Quintero roots all these issues in the personalities of these bold women, who force their friends to contront often painful truths about themselves.”

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