Anna Leonowens
Author, educator, and feminist, inspiration for the musical The King and I
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Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
Canadian feminist, social reformer, lecturer, educator and author
Robertine Barry
Canadian journalist, writer, lecturer, feminist, and office holder
Nancy Morton
Enslaved woman who fought a legal battle for her freedom
Nahnebahwequay
1800s Ojibwa spokeswoman
Lily O’Brennan
Irish republican
Paula Riesch
American activist
Dr Haunani-Kay Trask
Native Hawaiian was a scholar, poet, activist, and revolutionary known for her deep historical and cultural analysis of US Imperialism and oppression in Hawai’i. She was also an iconic figure in the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement.
Beth Takekawa
Former executive director of the Wing Luke Museum
Anne Smith-Young
Founded non-profit organization (Continence Restored, Inc. 1975) that disseminates information on bladder control problems to people with the problem, people interested in the problem and help create and awareness about having urinary incontinence.