Brenda Alcocer
Mexican poet, essayist and storyteller
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Chary Gumeta
Mexican poet and art promoter.
Dorothy G Payer Shepherd
Curator of Textiles and Near Eastern ART for the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA, 1954-81)
Helen Maria Chesnutt
Latin instructor and co-author of a Latin textbook
Carrie Williams Clifford
Orator, poet, suffragist, and an activist for women and African-Americans. She helped found the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women in 1900 and served as its first president while she lived in Cleveland.
Josefina Vicens
Mexican novelist, poet, screenwriter and activist for labor rights and women’s rights
Madeline A DeSantis Iosue
President of her family company, C. DeSantis Paint Manufacturing Co.
Stella Godfrey White Bigham
African-American community activist, columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the first woman to serve on the board of the Cleveland Transit System
Ethel Richardson
In 1932, Ethel Richardson was the first Australian woman to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Eileen Jackson Southern
Today, both the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music recognize African American music as worthy of scholarly study – thanks in large part to her work.