Sharon Smith Holston
When Sharon Smith Holston retired as Deputy Commissioner for International and Constituent Relations in 2001, she left a rich legacy of administrative service to the Food and Drug Administration.
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Haben Girma
Haben Girma advocates for equal opportunities for people with disabilities. She developed a text-to-braille communication system that created an exciting new way to connect with people. Girma pioneered her way through obstacles, graduated from Harvard Law and now uses her talents to advocate for people with disabilities.
Trixie Friganza
Famous vaudeville star and suffragist, inspiration for “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”
Grace Thorpe
Native American rights activist and environmentalist
Rhodessa Jones
Using playwriting, acting, and directing, she has created her own brand of social work designed to empower incarcerated women and women with HIV.
Lena Morrow Lewis
Alaska’s male-dominated government passed women’s suffrage, but female leaders organized and lobbied to make voting rights a reality. Lena Morrow Lewis traveled around Alaska in the 1910s and spoke to large audiences in Fairbanks, Valdez, and Juneau about voting rights and other social reform issues.
Lillian Ford Feickert
Lillian Ford Feickert was president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912-1920.
Dr Susan Alberti
Australian businesswoman, philanthropist and sports advocate
Beatrice Faust
In 1972, Beatrice Faust was a founder of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) in Australia.
Cornelia Foster Bradford
Cornelia Foster Bradford established the Whittier House, the first settlement house in New Jersey and a Jersey City social establishment, in 1894.