Janisse Ray
Janisse Ray, an environmental activist and poet, is the award-winning author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a highly praised book that combines elements of ecology and autobiography into a multifaceted work.
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Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is an award-winning actor, a political activist, and a former fitness guru.
Eliza Frances Andrews
Eliza Frances Andrews was an American writer, newspaper reporter, editor, columnist, social critic, scientist, and educator.
Teutila Correa de Carter
Mexican writer
Kate Pierson
Founding member of the B-52s, lyricist and singer who plays guitar, bass and various keyboard instruments.
Nathalie Dupree
As the first woman since Julia Child to film more than 100 cooking shows for public television, Nathalie Dupree helped bring southern US cooking to the nation’s attention. Recognizing the contributions of European and African cooks, she emphasized traditional ingredients and foodways that can be traced back through the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Civil War (1861-65). T
Adela Fernández
Mexican educator and writer whose work included 14 books of literature, poetry, anthropology and Mexican history, two short experimental films and many plays.
Sarah Hillhouse
First woman to edit a newspaper in the US state of Georgia
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
Sociologist, activist, teacher, and writer, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin spent a lifetime studying and combating economic and racial oppression. She is best known for her autobiography, The Making of a Southerner (1947).
Lydia Parrish
In the 1950’s, Lydia Parrish made recordings of traditional songs of the Gullah Geechee culture that are now part of the Margaret Davis Cate Collection at Fort Frederica National Monument.