Jennie Collins
In 1870, Jennie Collins founded Boffin’s Bower in Boston to provide working women with a place to read and socialize, as well as food, clothing, job placement, and other aid.
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Clare Marie Hodges
Yosemite National Park Park Ranger, 1918
Dr Judith Resnik
NASA astronaut and biomedical engineer
Dr Nouria Salehi
In addition to her ongoing research in nuclear medicine, Nouria has travelled to Afghanistan many times, at the risk of her own life, to establish science teacher training programs, apprenticeships, literacy programs, and a range of other constructive initiatives, to drive change and empower young people and women and their communities.
Dr Flemmie Pansy Kittrell
Globetrotting African-American nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
Dr Rosalie Slaughter Morton
In 1909, Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton was the first chair of the Public Health Education Committee of the American Medical Association. She was one of the first women faculty members at the New York Polyclinic Hospital and Post-Graduate Medical School and the first woman faculty member at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Asha Rao
Professor Asha Rao is a mathematician by training and applies algebraic techniques to a wide variety of problems, ranging from designing better codes for communication, to detecting money laundering and describing human interactions in the physical space.
Dr Anne Astin
Australian pioneer for women in biochemistry and advocate for rural women
Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum
In April 2002 Beverly Daniel Tatum, dean of the college and acting president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, was named Spelman College’s ninth president.
Lt. Col. Juanita Redmond Hipps
Juanita Redmond Hipps trained as a nurse at South Caroline State Hospital and joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1936. She was sent to Manila, in the Philippines soon after joining.