Extraordinary Women Film Series: Maestra

The award-winning 2014 film documents Cuba’s literacy movement that mobilized 250,000 volunteers to teach 700,000 people to read and write in one year, 1961. Nearly half of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. Maestra explores the poignant and powerful story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island—and found themselves deeply transformed in the process. Ossie Davis Theater. Free. Made possible by the Friends of the New Rochelle Public Library and in partnership with Zonta Club New Rochelle.