Gwen Burbidge
Australian matron, teacher, reformer, activist and advocate for nurses and nursing
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Florinda Ogilvie
Florinda Ogilvie was a medical social worker and a Fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney from 1943-1949. The University holds an archival collection of her personal records dating from 1937 to 1968.
Claire Madden
20th century Irish feminist and political activist
Dr Almah J Frisby
Early 1900s American physician
Amelia Stone Quinton
1800s advocate for Native American education
Ninfa Tanguma
Ninfa Tanguma and her daughter Yolanda Alaníz, provided determined leadership for Latinas in their transition from rural to urban areas. In 1970 Tanguma took her turn at picket duty in a hop-ranch strike in Yakima.
Frances Martínez
A former farm worker, she worked until the end of her life helping Latinos find jobs, housing, and counseling. Through El Centro de la Raza, she organized emergency food programs and classes, and secured legal advice for recent arrivals to Seattle.
Hortensia Villanueva
Hortensia Villanueva formed a mothers’ club in December 1994. The wife of a union leader in Eastern Washington, Villanueva used space at the Farm Workers’ Clinic to organize the mothers of children who came down with contagious virus infections.
Christabel Bielenberg
British expat who wrote about her experience of the rise of Hitler in Germany
Ida Culver
Ida Culver was a Seattle Public Schools elementary teacher, a founding member of the Seattle Education Auxiliary and first president of the Seattle Teachers Finance Association. She was a shrewd investor who left a legacy of retirement homes for educators and their families.