Sarah Dionna
US Marine Corps Veteran Sarah Dionna, who served as an ammunition technician and now speaks on the medical condition POTS.
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Tracey Cooper-Harris
Tracey served in the US Army from 1991 to 2003 as an Animal Care Sergeant, and later became an advocate for veterans.
Cecilia Mary Caddell
1800s Irish novelist
Toni Braxton
Rhythm-and-blues artist Toni Braxton launched her recording career with Atlanta’s LaFace Records label in the early 1990s and has gone on to win numerous Grammy Awards and American Music Awards. Her best-known songs include “Breathe Again” (1993), “Un-Break My Heart” (1996), “You’re Makin’ Me High” (1996), and “He Wasn’t Man Enough” (2000).
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor is considered one of America’s greatest fiction writers and one of the strongest apologists for Roman Catholicism in the twentieth century.
Esperanza Spalding
Esperanza Spalding was gifted with a natural talent for music. Not only is she an amazing jazz singer, but she can also play the upright bass at the same time, a skill that takes most musicians years to be able to do. While her music is categorized as jazz, she incorporates elements of R&B and Brazilian music into her songs.
Olivia Robello Breitha
Renowned author and Hansen’s disease activist who resided in Kalaupapa from 1937 until her death in 2006.
Lesbia Venner Harford
Australian poet
Claudia Burton Bradley
Her research focused on cerebral palsy in Australia and she published major articles that dealt with aspects of the disease in children, seeking to promote the potential of cerebral palsy sufferers to lead useful and independent lives. She formed the Australian Cerebral Palsy Association in 1952 and chaired its medical and educational committee.
Harriet Martineau
English author