Conny Braam
Leader of the Anti-Apartheidsbeweging Nederland, which played an important role in the international struggle against apartheid in South Africa
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Sonja Schlesin
Russian-South African political activist
Sonia Bunting
South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist
Bernard Ncube
South African nun and activist
Ruth Gosschalk
South African political activist
Shulamith Muller
South African political activist
Anna Murray Douglass
American abolitionist and wife of Frederick Douglass
Christine Costner Sizemore
Mental health advocate on whom the Three Faces of Eve, both a best-selling book and a major motion picture, is based
Virginia Sink
The first woman automotive engineer at Chrysler; by 1950 she was the Group Leader in the Chemical Research Department and worked on the LA smog project from 1957 until 1962 when she co-developed Chrysler’s Cleaner Air Package.
Dr Lilia Ann Abron
Lilia Ann Abron’s chemistry BS and sanitary engineering MS led to her PhD on reverse osmosis to remove DDT and Aldrin from water and her career on a wide range of environmental engineering and sustainability projects.