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Mary Walsh Lee

Leader in the South Australian suffrage movement and a worker for working women.

Naomi Klein

Canadian author, professor, activist, and filmmaker

Born in Calumet, Michigan to Slovenian immigrant parents in 1888, Anna Klobuchar Clemenc Shaw was instrumental in the fight for worker’s rights during the 1913-14 Copper Miners’ Strike in Michigan’s Copper Country.

Rosalinda Guillen

Rosalinda Guillen is a farmworker and justice leader as well as the Executive Director of Community to Community Development.

Velma Veloria

In 1992, Veloria became the first Filipina in the United States to be elected to a state legislature.

Nurhaliza Mohmath

Mohamath, as the food justice coordinator for the Rainier Beach Action Coalition (RBAC) works directly with Black, Brown, Indigenous and other people of color farmers and advocates to support them.

Hazel Wolf

Hazel Wolf was well known as an environmentalist and social activist.

Clara Fraser

Clara Fraser was incredibly passionate about workers and women’s rights as well as fighting against the segregation that was present in Seattle in the mid-1900s.