Barbara Deming
American writer and activist for peace, human rights, and related causes.
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Bernardine Evaristo
“When I won the Booker Prize in 2019 for my novel Girl, Woman, Other, I became an ‘overnight success’ – after forty years working professionally in the arts.”
Betty White
Beloved comedic actress and writer
Betty Krawczyk
American-Canadian environmentalist
Michelle Obama
American first lady, lawyer, bestselling author and producer
Michelle Buteau
American comedian, actor and writer
Dr Mona Chalmers Watson
In July 1917, Mona Chalmers Watson was named the first Chief Controller of Britain’s Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) when it was formed. The thousands of WAACs worked as cooks and waitresses, clerks, communications operators, drivers, and more. She was already noteworthy as a suffragist, physician, and the first woman to receive her MD from the University of Edinburgh.
Kankawa Nagarra
Walmatjarri elder, community activist, and blues and gospel singer-songwriter
Madhur Jaffrey
Indian actress and chef
Marcella Hazan
Long after her 2013 death, her legacy lives on in the recipes that younger generations of cooks continue to live—and eat—by.