Leona Vicario was an important supporter of Mexico’s independence movement. She used her resources, connections, and writing to support the insurgent cause, providing information and help to independence fighters.

She is remembered as one of the great women of Mexican independence. For citizenship learners, Leona Vicario shows that the independence movement depended not only on battlefield leaders, but also on organizers, messengers, writers, and people who risked their social position for the cause.