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Rachel A Dean

In September 2006, Rachel, an Agency support officer, died in a traffic accident while on temporary duty overseas.

As the US entered World War II, Cordelia joined the war effort after seeing the horror of the Nazis first hand. She accepted a job with US Military intelligence, translating and analyzing air order of battle at the Pentagon. When she requested a transfer overseas she was turned down, so she resigned and joined the OSS.

Edna Andrade

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

Doris Bohrer

OSS officer during WWII

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

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.”