One of the unheralded trailblazers of the civil rights movement, Dorothy Rogers Tilly devoted her entire adult life to reforming southern race relations. Her extensive career as an activist, organizer, and mentor forged a link between the reform efforts of the early twentieth century and the modern civil rights movement.
Elsie Inglis was both the product of and an agent for advances for women in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Prominent American historian, educator, and feminist who made a name for herself not only in academic circles but also in both Democratic politics and international affairs.
Mathilda Allen helped lead a drawn-out women’s suffrage campaign in Washington, culminating in 1910 with ratification of a right-to-vote amendment in the Washington State Constitution.
Karleen is a proud Australian woman with a disability, who works to empower others with disabilities and influence systemic change.
Irish nationalist, political activist, and subject of most of the love poetry of W. B. Yeats
A trained educator, botanist, and manager of prescribed burns and co-founder of Birdsong Nature Center, a model of biodiversity and environmental stewardship in the red hills of southwest Georgia.
Colombian human rights activist
One of Victoria, Australia’s leading Aboriginal consultants, she chairs Aboriginal organisations at state and national levels and is the director of a mainstream water corporation.
Karen has led the way in business and supports women to find their leadership prowess and harness their inner strength with combined empowerment through culture and sisterhood. Karen demonstrates impartiality and kindness in all that she does. She has shown incredible tenacity while operating under sometimes difficult conditions to deliver cultural awareness and immersive experiences for the non-Aboriginal sector.
Karen has recently co-developed and delivered an intensive, one-of-a-kind First Nations women’s leadership program called ECHO – Empowering Connections, Healing Ourselves that went through rigorous co-design with Victorian First Nations women of all ages and from all walks of life. She has diversified her reach into the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal space and as the chair of Kinaway, took a team to Milan in early 2022 to promote First Nations fashion at the Milan fashion show. Karen believes in supporting her community and educating the broader community to understand First Nations issues.
In the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours, Karen was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia, ‘for significant service to Indigenous advocacy, and to reconciliation’.
Eleanor Perry went from writing whodunits with her first husband in Cleveland to writing screenplays for her second husband in New York and Hollywood.