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Dina

Two Messinese women, Dina and Clarenza, defended their city during Charles I of Anjou’s siege of the Italian city in 1282

Clarenza

Two Messinese women, Dina and Clarenza, defended their city during Charles I of Anjou’s siege of the Italian city in 1282

Barbara A. Robbins joined the CIA, but just two years later – in March 1965 – she was killed when terrorists bombed the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam. She was the first female CIA officer to die in the line of duty and she remains the youngest ever, at just 21-years old.

Lula Mae O’Bannon

Lula Mae O’Bannon (Choctaw) used the opportunities in joining the US Coast Guard SPARS during World War II to expand her horizons and serve the United States’s war effort.

Lula Belle Everidge

Lula Belle Everidge served in World War II as one of the few Native American SPARS.

Erica O’Donnell

Irish art historian and WWII espionage officer

Virginia Jenkins Riley

In the early 1960s, Riley was one of the designers and programmers of a general program written for the UNIVAC 490, the first computer designed specifically for real-time applications at NSA. In the late 1960s, she moved to the Cryptanalysis Department at the National Cryptologic School, where she developed a new course in Cryptanalytic Diagnostics.

Dr Frederica de Laguna

Dr. Frederica “Freddy” de Laguna was an influential archeologist and anthropologist who worked extensively throughout Alaska.

Toni Frissell

Remembered today principally for her high-fashion photography for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, Toni Frissell volunteered her photographic services to the American Red Cross, Women’s Army Corps, and Eighth Army Air Force during WWII. On their behalf, she produced thousands of images of nurses, front-line soldiers, WACs, African-American airmen, and orphaned children.