Dr Teresa Lozano Long
American arts patron
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Miranda Restovic
Executive director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
For thirty years Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve has written children’s books with the intention of dispelling stereotypes and negative images of Native Americans. She has brought the richness of Native American culture and heritage to thousands of children.
Kay Boyle
20th century American writer
Beatrix Potter
Mycologist and beloved children’s author
Esther Peterson
In 1961, labor activist Esther Peterson, the head of the Women’s Bureau in the Department of Labor, urged President Kennedy to establish the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in order to develop recommendations for achieving gender equality.
Phoebe Couzins
The first femal U.S. Marshal
Ardeth Platte
Nun, anti-nuclear activist and ‘peacemaker in a hostile world’
Abbie Ann Bigelow
1800s American president of the Worcester Branch of the Baldwinsville Hospital Cottages
Abbie Trask Usher
1800s American President of the Woman’s Relief Corps