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Natasha-

It is important that you bold your contributions here in the sandbox so that we can review your additions before they are taken live. I've bolded what I think are your additions, but I cannot be certain. In addition, all new contributions need citations before they can be added and I am not seeing any of those here. In addition, when you add to the live page, you must only insert the new material in order to avoid making it seem that you wrote the entire piece. A few additional points


 * What is a marchanta? What is gofio? You must define or exclude.
 * What are the references in [] about? [Caudillos and Gavilleros versus the United States Marines: Guerrilla Insurgency during the Dominican Intervention, 1916-1924 by Bruce J. Calder] [Why Dominican Feminism Moved to the Right: Class, Colour and Women's Activism in the Dominican Republic, 1880s–1940s]
 * Your point about the Instituto needs to be moved down into the appropriate section below and avoid repetition
 * Please fix that she returned to "America." I assume you mean the Dominican Republic?

Please remove your edits from the main page, fix in the sandbox, and then repost.

Early life
She was born on November 10, 1879, in San Rafael de el Yuma, La Altagracia (Dominican Republic), in a poor family. Her mother, Felipa Perozo, was an illiterate peasant who was left pregnant by Ramón Rodríguez, a wealthy merchant of the area who was also an officer in the army of Pedro Santana. Her mother first abandoned her, and then her father did the same when she was a child and her paternal grandmother took charge of her. 'Rodríguez's grandmother Tomasina Suero de Rodíguez, was a marchanta (itinerant female vendor of homemade confections and sweets)'' in San Pedro de Macorís. Many of Rodríguez's family and friends called her Lilina as a nickname. At the age of 6, Rodríguez was selling gofio (a sweet toasted cornmeal powder) that her grandmother made at home to help pay for her school fees''' .Her father would occasionally visit.

She is the first doctor of the university institute of the Dominican Republic. As a young and medical physician of color, Rodríguez attempted to make a living in San Pedro de Macorís but founded it challenging to do so as an inexperienced female doctor. As a result of the lack of profits, Rodríguez moved to the region of Ramom Santana [4] which was home to the many who were part of the guerrilla resistant’s and oppose actively the American invasion of United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924). There Rodríguez provided medical and teaching services for greater funds and experiences. '''In 1921, three years of providing free medical care in San Francisco and neighboring poor rural communities, Rodríguez left for Paris so she could continue her studies and practice medicine. In 1926, she returned to the Dominican Republic, with an advanced degree in obstetrics and public health care along with a degree in politics.''' In addition, there in Ramom Santana is where she has the first encounter with Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. Rodríguez considered dictator Rafael Trujillo a threat to the nation and refused to remain silent. As a result of her defiance to the Trujillo regime 1930s and 1940s the Dominican Feminist Action {Acción Feminista Dominicana (AFD)} alliance with the regime erased Rodríguez's contributions to Dominican history as well as, women’s health care in the island and other activists like herself from official Dominican feminist memories and history. As the Trujillo’s authoritarian regime rose to power beginning in 1935 Rodríguez fell victim to Trujillo’s brutality which led to the destruction of her medical practices as she was shunned by local politicians and her professional colleagues. In addition, In 1935 Dr. Rodríguez survive police brutality as she pursued relentlessly by the police, for failure to show proper gratitude to General Trujillo in an honorable mention she received for her essay, ‘Social Medicine and Protection of the Species.’ [Caudillos and Gavilleros versus the United States Marines: Guerrilla Insurgency during the Dominican Intervention, 1916-1924 by Bruce J. Calder] [Why Dominican Feminism Moved to the Right: Class, Colour and Women's Activism in the Dominican Republic, 1880s–1940s]

Educator
'Rodríguez mentor Anacaona Moscoso Puello (1876-1907) founded the Instituto de Señoritas'' (Young Ladies Institution) in 1898 and personally enrolled Rodríguez in her first class that graduated in 1902. Following the death of her mentor, Rodríguez agreed to become the director of the "Young Ladies Instituto Profesional" in 1907 .''' Rodríguez was an educator and taught at the Young Ladies Institute during the day, and in the evenings at the Laborers and Domestic Workers Night School (Escuela Nocturna para Obreros y Domésticas). In teaching at both schools, she wrote and published her 1915 book titled Granos de polen (Pollen Grains), on hygienic and childrearing.

Legacy
Despite the Trujillo’s authoritarian regime attempt to erase Rodríguez from official documented Dominican History, she is remembered in the Dominican Republic today, as a pioneer in the Dominican medical field especially as it relates to women health care. She is honored by having the Dominican Social Security Institute (IDSS) reopened, remodeled, and renaming the Dominican Women's Hospital in Santo Domingo and San Rafael del Yuma after her [9]. in addition, to the Dominican Republic establishing and naming the elementary school of Evangelina Rodríguez (Niña) in her hometown of San Pedro de Macorís. Rodríguez was never married, however she did adopt a daughter Selisette Sánchez Santiago, whose mother was a patient of Rodríguez but died after giving birth to her daughter in 1929.