Alicia Sanchez

Alicia Razo Juarez Sanchez (16 Nov 1926–11 Mar 1985) was a Latina activist who founded the Clinica Campesina (which became Clinica Family Health) in Lafayette, Colorado. Alicia Sanchez Elementary School in Lafayette is named after her. In 1977, she was named Boulder County Woman of the Year.

Life and family Alicia Juarez Sanchez was born on November 16, 1926, in Louisville, Colorado. She had lupus as a child, which left marks on her face. Later, she was a Lafayette resident and mother of seven children. Alicia Sanchez's daughter, Eleanor Montour, received the Boulder County Multicultural Award in 2013.

Clinica Campesina Family Health Services Clinica Campesina was founded in 1977 in the kitchen of Alicia Sanchez's wooden house in Lafayette, CO. The clinic began taking care of pregnant migrant women workers who worked in fields nearby and then cared for miners and agricultural workers. Clinica used a bedroom in the house for two exam rooms, microscope was in the kitchen, and strep cultures grew using a chicken-egg incubator given by a local farmer. Clinica Family Health now serves about 55,000 patients each year and operates six community-based medical clinic.

Legacy Mi Mama, Alicia Sanchez: A Story Inspired by the Lives of Alicia Sanchez and Her Daughter Eleanor Montour is a bilingual Spanish and English book telling her story, written and illustrated by Andrea Baeza Breinbauer, Elizabeth (L.) LeNard, and Hannah Mook, in partnership with the Boulder County Latino History Project. Copies were distributed to every school library in St. Vrain and Boulder Valley School Districts, funded by CU Boulder and the Boulder County Latino History Project. They were presented by State Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, who had known Sanchez.