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Anya Krugovoy Silver

American award-winning poet, scholar, and professor

Rosalie van der Gucht

South African drama teacher

Ruth Elizabeth Arndt

Canadian-South African education activist

Tania Leon

South African anti-apartheid, women’s rights and queer rights activist

The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering from the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University and first woman to receive an MS and a PhD in engineering from the University of Florida (1962). She then got a job as a propellant and aerospace engineer for Rocketdyne Corporation and United States Naval Research Laboratory, developing solid fuel and engines which are still used in the space program today.

Blanche Huber

Although Blanche Huber was the first woman in Malta to train as a doctor at university, graduating from the University of Malta in 1925, she never practiced medicine professionally, instead working as a pharmacist.

Eulie Chowdhury

Indian architect

Dr Judy Raper

Hungarian-Australian chemical engineer

Dr Stella Nyanzi

Ugandan medical anthropologist who has written about sexuality, HIV/AIDS and women’s health. She is also a political activist who campaigns for women and girls rights, as well as the rights of LGBTQIA+ people.