Margaret Anna Cusack
1800s Irish nun and author
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Shannon Watts
Founder of anti-gun violence grassroots organization, Moms Demand Action
Rosie Batty
Australian anti-violence activist
Shirley Shackleton
Australia’s Shirley Shackleton became an activist after the 1975 murder of her husband, journalist Greg Shackleton.
Stella Courtright Stimson
Suffragist and clubwoman Stella Courtright Stimson was 50 when she decided to take down the corrupt Terre Haute, Indiana politician Donn Roberts in 1913.
Sue Sanders
British activist Sue Sanders is an educator and feminist activist for LGBTQIA+ and disability rights.
Opal Lee
In 2021, Juneteenth was officially recognized as a federal holiday in the United States thanks in large part to the then-94-year-old Opal Lee.
Dr June McCarroll
June McCarroll was a doctor in early 1900s Indio, California, a “tiny, tough-talking lady who often strapped on a six-shooter to make house calls.” But for all the good she did as a physician, she saved far more lives by taking up the cause of road safety when she was 40 and semi-retired.
Kimberly Bryant
Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in 2011 to create pathways that she didn’t have in the 1970s, and that she didn’t see for her own daughter decades later.
Dawn M Blackman Sr.
As Dawn M. Blackman Sr. tells the story, “I was a city girl … I did not know a thing about gardening. Then, in 2003, I started gardening with 10 neighborhood children.” That project, started in her 50s, grew into Randolph Street Community Garden.