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Katharine Coman

Influential American social activist and educator.

Sofka Skipwith

Russian princess who worked to save Jews from the Holocaust.

Teresa Wilms Montt

Chilean writer and poet known for her anarcha-feminist beliefs.

Miriam O’Brien Underhill

Mountaineer, environmentalist and feminist proponent of all-women climbs

Alice Childress

American playwright, actress, and author

American author, poet, and activist whose most famous work, “The Color Purple,” published in 1982, is a seminal novel in American literature, known for its powerful portrayal of African American women’s lives in the early 20th century South.

Marie Wilcox

The last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, an indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. Her life’s work focused on preserving this endangered language.