Abbie Ann Bigelow
1800s American president of the Worcester Branch of the Baldwinsville Hospital Cottages
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Abbie Trask Usher
1800s American President of the Woman’s Relief Corps
Elizabeth Martínez
Chicana feminist, community organizer, activist, author and educator
Dr Jane E Hodgson
1970: Dr. Jane Hodgson was the first doctor convicted of performing an abortion in a hospital, when she challenged Minnesota law (Hodgson v. Minnesota).
Dr Steffie Woolhandler
1986: Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler helped found Physicians for a National Health Program, a not-for-profit organization for physicians, medical students, and other health care professionals who advocate a national health insurance program.
Gloria Hollister
American oceanographer
Sophie O’Brien
Irish writer and activist
Martha Cardona
Puerto Rican woman who brought a legal case, Cardona v. Power (1966), for being denied suffrage due to her lack of English literacy.
Dr Deborah Paredez
Co-founder of CantoMundo, the US’s first organization of its kind to specifically cater to Latinx poets
Vera Zambonelli
Founder and executive director of Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking