A teacher and activist, Aki Kurose spent her life advocating for education and social justice through pacifism. Through her beliefs in peace and nonviolence, she worked towards the betterment of her community, advocated for desegregation, and strove to improve education.
Mexican educator and poet
Dr. Carol Newton developed the first computer program to calculate electron therapy treatments, the Univac I, C-10 Code in 1958 and was a founding fellow of the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering and a fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics.
History interpreter for the National Park Service (US)
Dr. Carol Aschenbrener is the first woman to chair the National Board of Medical Examiners and the first woman to be elected chair of the board of the Iowa Medical Society.
Dr. Carol Jonhs was the first woman president of the American Clinical and Climatological Association.
One of the Little Rock Nine who helped integrate American schools
Helen Simpson is principally remembered for writing The women of New Zealand, published in 1940 as one of a series of government-sponsored centennial surveys.
She was the first woman to become a city councillor in Palmerston North, serving from 1962 to 1968. Because of her disability, she worked tirelessly for the New Zealand Crippled Children Society.
New Zealand principal and senior school inspector