Jennie Moton served briefly as director of Tuskegee’s Department of Women’s Industries and later was a field agent for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) and president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).
A committed community Elder maintaining culture and connections for Aboriginal women in custody in Victoria, Australia
Award-winning Indian-Australian psychiatrist, clinician, and researcher.
American farmer and community activist who became the first African-American appointee to a state board and was later appointed to a variety of federal organizations by President Richard M. Nixon.
Aunty Melva Johnson is a respected Yorta Yorta elder and pioneer in developing health and education services for the Aboriginal community in Echuca, Victoria (Australia).
American lyric soprano
Forced out of school early by racism, she became a nurse, before working as a journalist. She helped to found the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern, and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, among many other entities. In the early 1970s, as a prominent activist for Aboriginal rights, Sykes was invited to speak on racism, rights and colonialism in countries including the UK, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
Irish-American suffragist
Katharina Zell (1497-1562) was a reformer, theologian, and prolific writer in Strasbourg who helped establish the basic tenets of the Protestant Reformation without advancing sectarian interpretations. She is regarded as the first ecumenical reformer as she accepted and ministered to people of different sects without judgment.
In 1975, Mary Owen and Sylvie Shaw co-founded the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne