Katharine Gibbs
Katharine Gibbs founded her first business school for women in Providence, Rhode Island, and opened a Boston branch on Huntington Avenue six years later.
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Lucinda W Prince
The Prince School of Education for Store Service developed out of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union. Founded in 1905 by Lucinda W. Prince (1862-1935), the program became so popular that Prince soon teamed up with Simmons College to offer teaching training courses for her instructors.
Alison Specht
Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Science and Management at Southern Cross University in Australia.
Angeline Boulley
Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Caroline Orr
Caroline “Orrie” Orr (1910-1982) and Grace Flynn (1918-2012), leaders at Trinity Neighborhood House, inspired East Boston youth through nature, arts, and community service.
Edna Doriot
Leader of Boston’s French Library and Cultural Center
Inga Allison
Perfect brownies baked at high altitude are possible thanks to Colorado’s home economics pioneer Inga Allison
Ada Iddings Gale
American author and educator
Addie Dickman Miller
American college professor, a founder of the town of Ruskin in Florida and co-founder and vice-president of Ruskin College
Alice R Jordan Blake
1800s American lawyer