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S Isabel Choi

Korea-born American lawyer and writer

Carrie Steele Logan founded the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta, recognized as the oldest predominantly Black orphanage in Georgia and possibly the oldest organization of its type in the country.

Julia Pardoe

1800s UK author

Doris E O’Donnell Beaufait

One of Cleveland’s pioneer woman journalists, specializing in crime, racial, and investigative reporting for four local newspapers over a span of four decades.

Anne O’Hare McCormick

The first woman on the editorial board of the New York Times (NYT) (1936-54) and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence (1937)

Argentina Fernández

Argentina Fernández Rafaelli devoted herself mainly to political journalism and also wrote novels, poetry and the biographies of public officials

Dr Jill Ker Conway

Australian-American scholar and author and the first woman to chair a listed public company in Australia.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938) is an award-winning author

Laura Redden Searing

Deaf American suffragist

Annette Gordon-Reed

No historian has done more to recover the stories of enslaved African-Americans than Annette Gordon-Reed, whose 2008 book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as wide acclaim.