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# Lena Archuleta: Building a Community of Belonging
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/great-colorado-women/episode/lena-archuleta-building-a-community-of-belonging-ebwlfn/
- Published: 2025-10-28T21:20:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-29T22:44:52.000Z
- Description: Educator Lena Archuleta is widely known as the Latina Matriarch of the Denver Community.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Great Colorado Women, Season 2025, Episode 5, #ZZZ_Episode_68b009e2-c1bc-4f52-a241-950f5185cb99, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_a09d704c-6fb6-403c-9020-ce45752ac10b, #v1.16

Lena Archuleta has served the Hispanic community in Colorado as teacher, school librarian, administrator, and community volunteer. In 1976, she became the first Hispanic female principal in the Denver Public Schools. Archuleta is widely known as the Latina Matriarch of the Denver Community and was the first Latina to be inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.