Activism Archives - Page 87 of 318

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).

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

Dr Katharine Maguire

Dr Katharine Marian Neril Maguire (1863-1931) was Ireland’s first female Paediatrician and a prize winning biology and medical student, who was primarily interested in social medicine.