Abbie M Gannett
American author
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Janie Porter Barrett
From her home in Hampton, Barrett founded the Locust Street Settlement House, serving her local Black community with classes, childcare, entertainments, and lectures.
Rosa Dixon Bowser
A noted educator and nationally known club woman, Bowser developed night classes and led summer teaching institutes throughout the state of Virginia for African American educators. She would later become a founder and president of the Virginia State Teachers Association.
Dr Doris Gorka Bartuska
As a medical school professor, as well as president of the American Women’s Medical Association, she promoted the recruitment of women to leadership roles in academic medicine.
Dr Carolyn Robinowitz
Dr. Carolyn Robinowitz was the founding director of the American Psychiatric Office of Education in 1976 and the first woman psychiatrist elected to the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1979.
Phyllis Gutiérrez Kenney
In 1967 Kenney co-founded The Latino Association, which initiated a volunteer program providing educational and childcare services to migrant children. This initiative evolved into the Washington Citizens for Migrant Affairs, now known as Inspire, which secured federal funding to establish childcare centers across Eastern Washington.
Yolanda Padilla
Dr. Yolanda Padilla is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.
Dr Nettie Craig Asberry
African-American suffragist and civil rights activist
Juanita Lewis Russell
Juanita Lewis Russell was an African American activist, artist, poet and teacher
Julie Shayne
Whether she is at our nation’s capitol acting as a National Student Coordinator, speaking at the National Women’s Studies Association, publishing books that shed light on the injustices present within society or teaching classes under the major Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies that she helped create, Julie Shayne is always working to empower the marginalized.