Dr Virginia Bouvier
Senior advisor at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., recognized as one of the key international advisors to Colombia’s peace process with the FARC
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Mary Kate Callahan
She helped spearhead a lawsuit against the Illinois High School Association to allow disabled swimmers to take part in the state meet along with their able-bodied classmates.
Eleanor Schetlin
Schetlin had a forty-two year career in education and was Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student Services at the Health Sciences Center, S.U.N.Y. from 1971 to 1985.
Elisabeth Freeman
British-American women’s rights, civil rights and labor rights activist
Elna Grahn
Grahn commanded the 2525th Women’s Army Corps (WAC) unit during World War II and was the first woman to serve on a United States Army General Court Martial.
Evelyn Krebsbach
Activist in North Dakota for the rights of the developmentally disabled
Mary Lindsay Elmendorf
Nobel Peace Prize recipient of group award British and American Quakers for work during and after World War II
Dr Ethel Percy Andrus
Founder of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
Jody Williams
Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1997 for her work to ban landmines through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which shared the prize with her that year.
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
One of five women who planned the women’s right convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, she presided over numerous women’s rights and anti-slavery conventions.