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.
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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
Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann
Aboriginal Australian painter and educator
Joan Montgomery
Australian leader in women’s education
Joan Bielski
Bielski was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and of the NSW Women in Education group (1973-1994), a feminist organisation, whose slogan was Educate to Liberate.