# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mela-leger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:15:10.945Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mela-leger"
name: "Mela Leger"
slug: "mela-leger"
description: "Manuelita de Atocha Leger, known as Mela Leger, was an early proponent for bilingual education in New Mexico. With her husband Ray Leger, she helped write the 1973 Bilingual Multicultural Education Act, which provided for Spanish and Indigenous languages to be taught in New Mexico K12 schools."
tagline: "Proponent of bilingual education in New Mexico"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Mela_Leger.jpeg"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1928"
deathDate: "2006"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.541901333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  34
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mela_Leger"
    title: "Mela Leger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113960786"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations