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Yoshiko Uchida

Yoshiko Uchida (1921–92) was an award-winning writer of children’s books, all of which are based on aspects of Japanese and Japanese American history and culture.

Toyo Suyemoto

Nisei inmate, librarian, poet, and memoirist.

Naomi Klein

Canadian author, professor, activist, and filmmaker

Reema Zaman

Reema Zaman is the author of the memoir, I am Yours, where she shares a story of hope as she guides the reader through her life.

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald, a fearless and determined advocate for education, has demonstrated that the pursuit of knowledge is an act of resistance against injustice.

Bridget Dirrane

Irish nurse, centenarian and memoirist

Hariot Blackwood

Irish marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, philanthropist and author

As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.