Fanny Goldstein
As the first Jewish woman to become a branch librarian in Massachusetts, Fanny Goldstein (1895-1961) was also collector and bibliographer of Judaica for the Boston Public Library.
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Isabel Hardwich
Photometry expert and electrical engineer and WES activist.
Hermila Galindo
Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
Geraldine Pindell Trotter
Associate editor of The Guardian, a newspaper dedicated to civil rights.
Dorothy Cridland
In 1951 she was one of the earliest women to be elected as an Associate of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and went to work for them from 1955-63 as a technical editor, despite her lack of formal technical qualifications.
Anne Newport Royall
Her four-page weekly newspaper, Paul Pry, later the Huntress, ran for twenty-five years and was described as a forerunner of the modern Washington gossip columns.
Annie Kriegel
During WWII, Annie Kriegel joined a Communist Resistance group at age fifteen because no other groups would admit a member so young.
Maude Trotter Steward
Assistant editor of The Guardian, a newspaper dedicated to civil rights
Pat Kelly
President of the Boston Culinary Historians and editor of their newsletter for over 20 years.
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.