Dr A Grace Lee Mims
Educator, a musician, and an advocate for African-American culture.
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Theresa Secord
A passionate advocate for preserving the ash and sweetgrass basketmaking heritage of the Wabanaki tribes of Maine (Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes), Theresa Secord is a master basketmaker, still using the basket molds that she inherited from her great-grandmother to shape her art.
Almeda C Adams
ADAMS, ALMEDA C. (February 26, 1865-September 8, 1949) overcame sightlessness to help found the Cleveland Music School Settlement and achieved a long career as a teacher, author, and lecturer.
Mary Xavier Mehegan
Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan (1825-1915) emigrated from Ireland to New York in 1842. She made her profession of vows in 1847 as Sister Mary Xavier and spent the next twelve years as a Sister of Charity in New York.
Juliet Clannon Cushing
Juliet Clannon Cushing (1845-1935), an advocate of protective labor legislation for women and founded the Consumers’ League of New Jersey in 1900.
Dr Jill Ker Conway
Australian-American scholar and author and the first woman to chair a listed public company in Australia.
Teri Rofkar
Teri Rofkar, known also by her Lingít clan name, Cháas’ koowú tláa was a master in the traditional ways of Raven’s Tail weaving and Spruce Root Basketry. She was also an accomplished educator who passed on these traditional Lingít weaving techniques to future generations so that the skills and art of the Lingít people would not be lost.
Suni Paz
Suni Paz was one of the first artists to bring the nueva canción tradition—the “new song” music of the 1960s and 1970s—to North American audiences. For more than half of a century, her work as an American songwriter and performer of Latin American folk music has resonated as a cultural force, engaging people of all backgrounds and ages.
Susan Paul
Through her actions and teachings, educator Susan Paul instilled in her students a commitment to social justice, action, and change.
Margaret Bancroft
Margaret Bancroft (1854-1912) founded the Bancroft Training School for the multiply disabled in Haddonfield, New Jersey.