Paula Riesch
American activist
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Dr Haunani-Kay Trask
Native Hawaiian was a scholar, poet, activist, and revolutionary known for her deep historical and cultural analysis of US Imperialism and oppression in Hawai’i. She was also an iconic figure in the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement.
Beth Takekawa
Former executive director of the Wing Luke Museum
Anne Smith-Young
Founded non-profit organization (Continence Restored, Inc. 1975) that disseminates information on bladder control problems to people with the problem, people interested in the problem and help create and awareness about having urinary incontinence.
Marcella Rossein
She focused her political activity on organizing and actively fighting against anti-Semitism, racial oppression, fighting for civil rights and equality for working people from a leftist prospective.
Linda Boston
In 2001 she established the non-profit 501(c) (3) corporation PEER, Inc., (Portable Educational Entertainment Repertoire, designed to take the arts and/or educational presentations, workshops, and programming where they often are not received.
Bess Bolden Walcott
American educator, librarian, museum curator and activist who helped establish the historical significance of the Tuskegee University.
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
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.