Lucy Craft Laney
The founder and principal of the Haines Institute in Augusta for fifty years (1883-1933), Lucy Craft Laney is Georgia’s most famous female African American educator.
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Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay is the author of the collage-based picture book, changing, changing, and the poetry collection Teeth, for which she was awarded a GLCA New Writers Award.
Clare Marie Hodges
Yosemite National Park Park Ranger, 1918
Ericka Huggins
Black Panther, university lecturer and poet
Joan Moriarty
Irish traditional musician, step dancer, ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and founder of professional ballet in Ireland
Charlotte Fellman
She spent her career as a music teacher in the Boston Public Schools, coordinating music programs in schools throughout the city, and receiving several awards for music education.
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones is a writer whose stories and literary imagination center on Georgia and its capital city.
Ayse Köksüz
Ayse Köksüz has devoted herself to developing and improving services for her community.
Marie Hilson Katzenbach
Marie Hilson Katzenbach (1882-1970) worked throughout her career to improve education in New Jersey.
Dr Flemmie Pansy Kittrell
Globetrotting African-American nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’