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Edna Andrade

Edna knew from a very early age that art and design was her life’s passion.

Elizabeth Sudmeier

Elizabeth Sudmeier was a pioneer in breaking down gender barriers at the CIA.

Elaine Toms

Working in the field of nuclear physics, Toms put everything into career and the work that she did had value, most especially for the women who followed her.

Susan Meiselas

Photojournalist who has won awards for her intense images that are as much at home in newspapers and magazines as they are on museum walls.

Helen Johns Kirtland was an early woman war photojournalist active at the end of World War I. She was the “the first and only woman correspondent allowed at the front after Caporetto, the 1917 Italian retreat in which 275,000 troops were captured.”

Marion Frieswyk

OSS cartographer during WWII

Maria Gulovich

Maria Gulovich, a young Slovakian schoolteacher, was only 23 when she began harboring Jews from the Nazis. She joined the underground resistance and began working for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as a guide and interpreter.

Leslianne Shedd

Leslianne Shedd—a young, courageous, highly successful CIA operations officer serving in East Africa—was a passenger on an Ethiopian Airlines flight when it was hijacked and then crashed into the Indian Ocean in 1996, killing 125 people, including Leslianne.