Hortensia Elizondo
Mexican writer, journalist, film critic, and feminist.
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Hester Lane
Born enslaved, as an adult free woman Hester Lane built her own business and used her success to buy other people out of slavery, as well as working tirelessly as a fundraiser for different organisations.
Belle Moskowitz
Belle Moskowitz was a social reformer and political advisor so influential that, in her obituary, The New York Times called her the most powerful woman in U.S. politics.
Kihana Wilson
American astrophysicist and writer
Ilona Maher
American rugby player
Louise Campbell
English princess, sculptor, personal secretary to Queen Victoria, viceregal consort, and painter
Katherine Ross Queen
Scottish-Canadian socialist and feminist
Vivion Mercer Lenon Brewer
Vivion Mercer Lenon Brewer is best known for helping to found the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) in 1958 during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Beulah Lee Sampson Flowers
Beulah Lee Sampson Flowers was an African-American educator, community leader, political activist, and businesswoman who was also a mentor to Maya Angelou.
Amy Jacques Garvey
Jamaican journalist and activist