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Barbara Boggs Sigmund

Barbara Boggs Sigmund (1939-1990) was the first woman elected mayor of Princeton, New Jersey when she won the 1983 election.

Elizabeth Casey

Irish author (as ‘E. Owens Blackburne ’)

Anne Sullivan

Blind teacher of Helen Keller

Marla Runyan

Legally blind since childhood, Olympic track and field athlete and marathon runner Marla Runyan never let her vision loss stand in the way of her athletic dreams.

Tilly Aston, ‘Australia’s Own Helen Keller’ was a blind writer and teacher who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers and later went on to establish and become secretary of the Association for the Advancement of the Blind.

Alice Walker

American author, poet, and activist whose most famous work, “The Color Purple,” published in 1982, is a seminal novel in American literature, known for its powerful portrayal of African American women’s lives in the early 20th century South.

Elizabeth Matilda Taylor

Blind/Deaf activist and Braille magazine editor

Katie-George Dunlevy

Katie-George Dunlevy (b1981) is a high scoring paralympic road and track cyclist, best known for winning gold and silver medals with pilot Eve Crystal at the Rio Paralympics in 2016.

Frances Browne

Browne wrote a great deal of poetry; three three-volume novels, My share of the world: an autobiography (1861), The Castleford case (1862), and The hidden sin (1866); and The Ericksons (1852) and Our uncle the traveller’s stories (1859) for children. She published much in magazines and newspapers, including ‘Legends of Ulster’, but is remembered today chiefly for Granny’s wonderful chair and its tales of fairy times (1857).

Fanny Crosby

Blind song writer who wrote more than 2500 hymns besides many secular songs, cantatas, and lyrical productions of various kinds.