Dr Mary Glowrey
Born in 1887, Dr Sr Glowrey was a gifted medical doctor and religious sister who was passionate about the role of women in medicine
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Enid Michael
Yosemite National Park Ranger & Naturalist, 1921-1942
Edith Ronne
Antarctic explorer
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.
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.