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Dr Donna Jackson

Donna Jackson started the Women’s Circus to enable women to come together to train in a non-competitive, supportive and safe environment.

Considered a pioneer in social work, Eva Whiting White was the first woman to graduate from the Boston School for Social Work (later part of Simmons College). As Head Worker of the Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House (1909-1944), she expanded classes to include woodworking, radio broadcasting, debate, and dramatics.

Kit Clark

Catherine “Kit” Clark was a community activist in Boston.

Belle P Rand

Led by Belle P. Rand, the French Library and Cultural Center opened in Boston in 1945.

Celeste Liddle

Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte woman, freelance writer, social commentator and public speaker.

Adrienne Reiko Iwanaga

Teacher, performer, preserver, and cultural ambassador of Bon Odori, a centuries-old Japanese folk dance rooted in the Buddhist tradition of communal gathering to honor and celebrate the memory of ancestors.

Adele Chatfield-Taylor

American preservationist and arts administrator

Barbara Radding Morgan

NASA astronaut and teacher

Betty Budlong

American who worked at Canyon de Chelly and El Morro National Monuments and published articles on Navajo ceremonies and dwellings

Camille Dungy

American ecopoet, essayist, and two-time NEA literature Fellow