A scholar, anthropologist, and academic pace-setter, Johnnetta Betsch Cole’s pioneering work about the on-going contributions of Afro-Latin, Caribbean, and African communities have advanced American understanding of Black culture and the necessity and power of racial inclusion in the US.
Dakotah Sioux/Hidatsa storyteller, historian and educator
“For thirty years, we have done what other schools declare impossible,” explains Collins, who has trained more than one hundred thousand teachers, principals, and administrators in the methodology developed and practiced at her Westside Preparatory School in Chicago.
“When I decided to become a historian,” recalls Darlene Clark Hine, “the last group I intended to study was black women.” That these words come from arguably the most influential scholar of African-American women’s history reflects the intertwined evolution of a career and field of study shaped by a struggle for recognition and legitimacy.
Mamie Luella Williams was a lifelong educator in Topeka, Kansas.
McDonald is not only the islands’ best-known practitioner of the art of Hawaiian lei making, but she is also its primary scholar.
Irish dance teacher
Irish teacher and pioneer of multi-denominational education
Margaret Murray Washington rose from humble beginnings to prominence as an educator, reformer, and clubwoman.
In 1998, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni was the first woman to be appointed professor in the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA.