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Sarah J Garnet

Sarah Jane Smith Thompson Garnet is best known as the first Black female principal of a New York City public school.

Eileen Szychowski

American disability activist

Della Keats

Iñupiaq healer and teacher

Known as the “Queen of the Air,” Dolly Jacobs is a world-renowned circus aerialist as well as a dedicated teacher, sharing the tradition of circus arts through teaching and performance at her organization, the Circus Arts Conservatory.

Anjani Ambegaokar

Anjani Ambegaokar came to the United States in 1967 from her native India and went on to become the most well known dancer, choreographer, and educator of Kathak in the nation.

Carmencristina Moreno

Carmencristina Moreno, recipient of the Bess Lomax Hawes Award, has been recognized for her lifelong contribution to Mexican American musical heritage through songwriting, performing, and teaching.

Hattie Kendrick

American teacher and civil rights activist

Chan Moly Sam

In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge terror of the 1970s devastated the institutions that supported dance drama. The tradition was uprooted as dancers and musicians who had survived the genocide fled to the United States. Three of these artists, determined to keep their heritage a living part of Cambodian life in the United States, formed the Apsara Ensemble.

Agnes Kenmille

Although Kenmille has spent most of her life on the Flathead Reservation in northwestern Montana, she is now known worldwide for her skills in beadwork, hide tanning, and leatherwork.

Margaret A Thone

Yellowstone National Park Park Ranger, 1924-1925