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Katharine Graham

Owner, board chair and publisher of The Washington Post for decades

When she published her own book, Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them, in 1915, the country’s first book dedicated to quilt history became a bestseller. It also helped legitimize quilting as an art and as an important topic of scholarly research.

Norma Shirley

Jamaican chef Norma Shirley built a reputation in the U.S. serving “New England food with Jamaican flair” at her Massachusetts restaurant in the late 1970s. But as she told Essence magazine, “It’s my dream to open another restaurant in Jamaica where Blacks would be the majority clientele.”

Tatsu’uma Kiyo

Tatsu’uma Kiyo built her family’s sake business into an empire in the 1800s

Mary Seacole

1800s Jamaican nurse and businesswoman

Ethel Greig Robertson

Robertson built the family business into Edrington, one of the largest producers of scotch whisky and the owner of Macallan, Highland Park, and The Famous Grouse.

Elena Zelayeta

Mexican-American chef

Bessie Williamson

“The First Lady of Laphroaig,” as a writer would later dub her, declaring “she occupies an almost talismanic position in Scotch whisky history as the person who, without fanfare, proved that given the opportunity women could do so much more in a distillery than type or make tea.”