Camille Dungy
American ecopoet, essayist, and two-time NEA literature Fellow
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Ruth deForest Lamb
Her untiring efforts to engage and acknowledge the activism of women’s groups in support of a new statute bore fruit as women shaped many provisions of the new law passed to replace the Wiley Act: The 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Haben Girma
Haben Girma advocates for equal opportunities for people with disabilities. She developed a text-to-braille communication system that created an exciting new way to connect with people. Girma pioneered her way through obstacles, graduated from Harvard Law and now uses her talents to advocate for people with disabilities.
Rhodessa Jones
Using playwriting, acting, and directing, she has created her own brand of social work designed to empower incarcerated women and women with HIV.
Florence Peshine Eagleton
New Jersey leader in the woman suffrage movement and an advocate for women’s higher education.
Frances Prindle Taft
Influential arts educator and Cleveland civic leader
Elvira Fölzer
The first female archaeologist in Germany awarded a PhD, which was also the only way to finish a study program in archaeology at that time.
Mary Chong
The first Chinese woman to graduate from an Australian university (USyd, BA 1929, DipEd 1930). Fluent in English and Cantonese, after graduating she became English Secretary for the Consul General of China in Australia.
Mae Mallory
Mae Mallory was a civil rights activist known for her support of armed self-defense and school integration. She was the founder of the “Harlem 9,” a group of nine Black mothers formed to protest the inferior conditions of schools in New York City during the 1950’s.
Sophie Maslow
Sophie Maslow was an American modern dance choreographer, performer, and teacher whose professional work in the field of dance began in the 1930s and spanned much of the 20th century.