Hana Assafiri
Hana Assafiri is a compassionate and unspoken hero within the Victorian community.
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Martine Rothblatt
Her long list of accomplishments includes creating and commercializing satellite radio, founding a biotechnology company that seeks to provide an unlimited supply of transplantable organs, setting world records for electric flight and delving deep into the future of artificial intelligence with her work on digital immortality.
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
In 1883, Harriet Williams Russell Strong—a graduate of Miss Mary Atkin’s Young Ladies Seminary, mother of four, and recent widow—became the sole owner of a California ranch on the brink of financial ruin. Her will to learn saved her ranch and led to several patents. Later, her advocacy to Congress would forever change how water is managed in the western United States.
Isabella Selmes Greenway
Isabella Greenway, a charismatic businesswoman, philanthropist, and politician, served as Arizona’s first woman in Congress. Elected to the House during the depths of the Great Depression, Representative Greenway used her experience and extensive political connections to bring economic relief to her suffering state.
Jeanne Gang
In 2011, the New York Times praised the newly minted MacArthur Fellow’s “habit of coaxing lyricism out of rigor in many of her designs.” Based in Chicago, her firm Studio Gang has helped reshape the city with projects such as the 82-story, ripple-skinned Aqua Tower, a nature boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo, and a pair of boathouses along the Chicago River.
Mary Anne Sadlier
1800s Irish novelist
Barbara Verschoyle
1700s and 1800s Irish land agent and philanthropist
Helen S Rush
Sisters Helen S. Rush (1900-1985) and Mary Sherkanowski (1902-1987) ran a boarding house at 22 Monument Square in Boston. They wrote about their adventures in the 1952 book “Rooms to Let”.
Louise Goff Reece
Louise G. Reece won a special election to succeed her Congressman husband after his death in 1961. .
Clementina Rind
Clementina Rind was a public printer for Virginia and publisher from August 1773 to September 1774 of one of two Virginia Gazettes printed in Williamsburg.