Haben Girma advocates for equal opportunities for people with disabilities. She developed a text-to-braille communication system that created an exciting new way to connect with people. Girma pioneered her way through obstacles, graduated from Harvard Law and now uses her talents to advocate for people with disabilities.
Rep. Sharice Davids is the first openly LGBTQ Native American woman to serve in the US Congress.
Australian lawyer and judge
Advocate for the rights of women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Tunisian-born lawyer, feminist activist, and French politician
Constance Baker Motley was a trailblazinglawyer and judge whose contributions to both Black history and women’s history left a permanent mark on American society.
Honourable Justice Mary Gaudron became the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia in 1987.
Cuban lawyer and women’s rights activist
Indigenous Australian activist, filmmaker, academic, lawyer and writer
Amanda America Dickson, the daughter of an enslaved woman and her enslaver, became one of the wealthiest Black women in nineteenth-century America.