Charlotte Read
Charlotte Read was a reverent guardian of public trust, who wholeheartedly committed herself to saving the Indiana Dunes from trickling to cascading threats.
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Drusilla Carr
Drusilla Carr was an unwavering early woman of Miller’s lakeshore who settled in 1872 and through squatter’s rights owned today’s Marquette Park and part of Miller Woods when it was regarded as unfarmable waste sands.
Lyudmila Bogoslovskaya
Russian biologist and environmental activist
Sylvia Troy
Shy before her involvement in saving the Indiana Dunes, nature-lover Sylvia Troy metamorphosed into an indomitable defender- wielding newly learned strength and assertiveness on behalf of a cause.
Harriette Shelton Williams Dover
Native American activist who helped revive traditional dances, the Lushootseed language, and tribal appreciation for a proud past and was the second female elected to the Tulalip Tribes’ Board of Directors and first Tribal Council Chairwoman
Flora Richardson
American dunes preservationist
Lyn Henderson-Yates
The first Aboriginal person to be appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of an Australian university.
Susan Nulsen
Canadian-Australian consumer rights activist
Teresa Corbin
American-Australian consumer rights activist
Sue Salthouse
Australian human rights and disability rights activist