Pearl Young
The first female professional hired by NASA’s predecessor, NACA, in an age when most women in the government were constrained to staffing support positions such as secretaries or administrative aides.
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Pauline Hopkins
Novelist Pauline Hopkins (1856-1930) edited The Colored American from 1900 to 1904; her goal was to publish a journal devoted to “the development of Afro-American art and literature.”
Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
Best known for her anti-slavery writings including Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs and A Letter to Mothers in Free States.
Lilli Vincenz
German-American LGBTQIA+ rights activist
Missouri T B Hanna
The “Mother of Journalism” in Washington.
Dr Asunción Rangel
Mexican writer, editor, researcher and professor.
Lucile S McDonald
Lucile Saunders McDonald distinguished herself in the fields of journalism and popular history through a prolific lifetime career that produced several thousand news features and columns, 13 published books on local history, an equal number of children’s books, and countless contributions to magazines, journals, and anthologies.
Beatrice Davis
Australian book editor
Alice Meynell
Late-Victorian poet, journalist, and art critic.
Ella Ryan
One of the earliest African American business owners in Tacoma, Washington; owner and editor of The Forum, a weekly newspaper.