Mildred Albert
Founded Boston’s first finishing school, co-founded the Boston Arts Festival, and became the “First Lady of Fashion”.
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Anna Bobbitt Gardner
In 1932, Anna Bobbitt Gardner (1901-97) became the first African American women to be awarded a bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.
Myrna Vázquez
Renowned Puerto Rican actress
Sophie Tucker
Ukrainian-American singer, comedian, actress, and radio star
Ana María Vázquez
Essayist and playwright
Celina Vázquez
Mexican academic, researcher and translator
Flo Ware
Florasina Ware was the quintessential activist, known in Seattle for raising a strong and logical voice on behalf of children, the elderly, and the poor.
Franca Arena
Arena always voiced pride in her Italian heritage and became a prominent figure in Sydney’s Italian community, working as a journalist on the Italian-language newspaper La Fiamma, and a broadcaster on ethnic community radio.
Dorothy Stimson Bullitt
Dorothy Stimson Bullitt purchased a small Seattle radio station with almost no listeners in 1947. She expanded it into one of the finest broadcasting empires in the nation.
Dr Yolanda Zamora
Mexican writer and journalist