Dr Helen Rodríguez Trías
Pioneering American pediatrician, educator, and women’s rights activist.
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Joan Ganz Cooney
American television producer and one of the creators of the iconic children’s educational television show “Sesame Street.”
Eleanor Abbott
Eleanor Abbott created the game Candy Land while she was recovering from polio
Ann Alabaster
New Zealand teacher
Ruth Homan
Educator and advocate for women’s welfare, who served on the London School Board for several years, and actively participated in Liberal politics, promoting progressive social policies.
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
Katherine Millett
American feminist writer, educator, artist and activist.
Dr Julia Lermontova
The first Russian woman to earn a doctorate in chemistry
Laura Smith Haviland
Pivotal figure in the American abolitionist movement.
Mary Hamilton Swindler
American archaeologist, classical art scholar, author, and professor