Ali Stroker
Ali Stroker made history as the first person in a wheelchair to appear on Broadway and win a Tony Award.
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Alma Boone Little
In December of 1914, Alma Boone Little’s husband filed for divorce, claiming that she was “tainted with colored blood.” After hiring doctors and anthropologists to conduct tests to prove her whiteness, she began to publish her life story in papers across the country in an attempt to assure herself, her husband, and her high society friends that she was white.
Celeste Liddle
Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte woman, freelance writer, social commentator and public speaker.
Aileen Nusbaum
American archaeologist and WWI nurse
Betty Budlong
American who worked at Canyon de Chelly and El Morro National Monuments and published articles on Navajo ceremonies and dwellings
Kelli Jo Ford
Native American author
Rachel Khong
Rachel Khong is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel, “Real Americans.” Her first novel, “Goodbye, Vitamin,” was the winner of the California Book Award for first fiction and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue; and Esquire. Khong lives in Los Angeles.
Xochiqueztal Candelaria
American poet
Camille Dungy
American ecopoet, essayist, and two-time NEA literature Fellow
Thelma Garcia Buchholdt
Thelma Garcia Buchholdt became the first Filipinx American legislator in the U.S. when she was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1974.