Dr Gladys Tantaquidgeon
Mohegan medicine woman, anthropologist, author, elder and tribal council member Gladys Tantaquidgeon co-founded the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum, the oldest to be owned and operated by Native Americans, in 1931.
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Phyllis Altman
As the secretary-general of the IDAF, Altman ran various secret operations to send money into South Africa to pay for lawyers in anti-apartheid cases.
Nontsizi Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of which appeared in the Johannesburg newspaper Umteleli wa Bantu between 1920 and 1929.
Florence Matilda Read
President of Spelman College from 1927 to 1953
Susanne Langer
American philosopher
Shirin Ebadi
Iranian Nobel-winning human rights activist
Sucheta Kripalani
Indian politician
Sudha Murthy
Indian educator, author, and philanthropist, founder and chair of the non-profit Infosys Foundation.
Urvashi Vaid
Indian-American lawyer and activist noted for her LGBTQ+ activism and leadership of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force during the AIDS crisis.
Zhang Haidi
Chinese disability rights activist