Barbara Fawkes
Barbara Fawkes trained as a nurse and midwife at the Middlesex Hospital School of Nursing, England, 1934-1938. She continued her nursing career into the post-World War II era.
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Rachel Burrows
20th century Irish actress, broadcaster and teacher
Jennie Kidd Trout
Canada’s first licensed female doctor and promoter of women’s medical education
Halina Teresa Szunejko
Polish-Australian community activist
Torfhildur Þorsteinsdóttir
1800s Icelandic-Canadian author and teacher
Ida Blackeagle
Ida Blackeagle was a Cultural Demonstrator at the Nez Perce National Historical Park who was instrumental to the revitalization of Nimíipuu cornhusk weaving in the mid-twentieth century.
Geraldine Atkinson
For more than 30 years, Aunty Dr Geraldine Atkinson AO has helped to increase Aboriginal Australians’ access to education services.
Adaline Emerson Thompson
American educational worker and reformer
Tilly Fleischmann
Irish pianist, writer and teacher
Eleanor Bourke
For decades, she has devoted herself to increasing awareness, appreciation and advancement of Aboriginal Australians.