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Melanie George

American dance educator, choreographer, dramaturg, and scholar, and an activist working to deconstruct the hierarchies of dance.

Rita Cetina y Gutierrez

Mexican educator, writer and feminist Rita Cetina y Gutierrez advocated for women’s education in Mérida, Yucatán.

Delores Brumfield (Dee) White began playing in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) as a young teenager in the post–World War II years, helping take the Fort Wayne Daisies to two league championships. She later taught physical education and was a coach at Henderson State University (HSU) in Arkadelphia (Clark County).

Dolores Batista

Tarahumara poet, essayist, translator, and social activist.

Elizabeth Belmont Gasking

Elizabeth Gasking worked at the University of Melbourne as a demonstrator in Botany 1948-1950 and then as a tutor, lecturer and senior lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science until her death.

Margaret Wigan

Margaret Wigan, a school matron, was the first woman president of any natural history club in Australia.

Sister Nivedita

Irish educator, writer, and political activist in India

Margaret Collins-O’Driscoll

Irish teacher and politician

Gwendolyn Mink

Gwendolyn Mink is an historical political scientist who has written about racism & nativism in US labor’s political formations at the turn of the 20th century; women & gender in 20th century US social policy history; and gender, race, and low income motherhood in the contemporary politics of poverty policy.