Petra Kuppers
Disability culture activist and community performance artist
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Lieutenant Commander Mildred McAfee
She became the Navy’s first female line officer on 3 August 1942. Commissioned a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve, she simultaneously undertook the demanding task of Director of the Navy’s newly-established Women’s Reserve. In November 1943, following the passage of new legislation by the Congress, she was promoted to the rank of Captain.
Mary Scott
Highly successful, prolific, comic and realistic New Zealand literature writer.
Dr Barbara Ross-Lee
Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., became the first African American woman to be appointed dean of an American medical school in 1993.
Dr Bertha Van Hoosen
Dr. Van Hoosen was a founder of the American Medical Women’s Association and served as the organization’s first president.
Hannah Tomiko Holmes
Educator and disability rights activist
Dr Agnes D Lattimer
Pediatrician and the first African American woman medical director of a major hospital.
Dr Alice Bennett
The first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Nannie Helen Burroughs
African-American educator, speaker, religious leader, civil rights activist, feminist, and businesswoman
Pelagia Melgenak
Pelagia Melgenak’s story shows a grit and determination to survive as an individual but also as a vessel to help a culture survive.