Franziska Boas
Pioneering dancer, percussionist, teacher, ethnologist, and therapist
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Raewyn Connell
Australia’s most widely acclaimed sociologist
Naomi Klein
Canadian author, professor, activist, and filmmaker
Sylvia Fine
Award-winning American lyricist, composer and producer
Dr Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
US civil rights activist Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and one of three women chosen to be a field director for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.
Dr Miruna Achim
Mexican researcher and academic
Joyce Ladner
Sisters Dorie and Joyce Ladner grew up in Mississippi and became civil rights activists as teenagers in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Yolanda Padilla
Dr. Yolanda Padilla is an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.
Yolanda Alaniz
Chicana socialist working for women, LGBT, workers’ and immigrant rights
Dr Janelle M Silva
Dr. Janelle M. Silva has dedicated years of activism in the classroom to teaching students of all ages about power and social structures in the Pacific Northwest.