“For thirty years, we have done what other schools declare impossible,” explains Collins, who has trained more than one hundred thousand teachers, principals, and administrators in the methodology developed and practiced at her Westside Preparatory School in Chicago.
Arriving as a refugee from Vietnam in 1978, Cuc Lam has worked tirelessly to help other migrants, and particularly women, adapt to life in Australia.
Jenkins has helped to provide people with cognitive and speech-related disabilities access to tailored sexual assault response services.
Irish Celticist, member of Cumann na nBan, and civil servant
Irish nationalist and land activist
Margaret Murray Washington rose from humble beginnings to prominence as an educator, reformer, and clubwoman.
Seeds of commitment to Palestinian liberation began to sow in Souheir Edelbi at a young age as she learned about the Nakba and oppression faced by Palestinians from her father.
Mexican-American labor rights activist
In 1998, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni was the first woman to be appointed professor in the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA.
Lillian Bernice Snooks was at the forefront of the late-twentieth century campaign to preserve Atsugewi culture and traditions.