Mary Seacole
1800s Jamaican nurse and businesswoman
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Melanie George
American dance educator, choreographer, dramaturg, and scholar, and an activist working to deconstruct the hierarchies of dance.
Edith Windsor
Edie Windsor was in her 80s when she sued the U.S. government. Her wife, Thea Spyer, died in 2009. The following year, Windsor received a $363,000 tax bill—estate taxes that, had the government recognized their marriage, would have been nonexistent.
Rita Cetina y Gutierrez
Mexican educator, writer and feminist Rita Cetina y Gutierrez advocated for women’s education in Mérida, Yucatán.
Birutė Galdikas
German primatologist
Annie Lee Cooper
American civil rights activist
April DeBoer
In 2012, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse filed a lawsuit challenging Michigan’s ban that prevented same-sex couples like DeBoer and Rowse from jointly adopting their children.
Margaret Haughery
1800s Irish-American philanthropist
Margaret Hayes
Irish civil servant
Dr Lorna Verdun Sisely
Dr Lorna Sisely was only the second person in Australia to receive a fellowship for the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS).