Fay Gale was an academic leader in the fields of Australian cultural geography and Australian Indigenous Studies, who undertook pioneering work into the assimilation of Indigenous people of mixed racial heritage and the marginalisation of the Stolen Generation.
Sarah-Patton Boyle was one of Virginia’s most prominent white civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s and author of the widely acclaimed autobiography The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition (1962).
Dr. Helen Taussig was the first woman to become the president of the American Heart Association.
Using photography as a tool for the empowerment of her community, Laura Aguilar provided new possibilities for the depictions of subjects and bodies that had traditionally been excluded from art history.
Octavia Butler was a pioneering writer of science fiction. As one of the first African American and female science fiction writers, Butler wrote novels that concerned themes of injustice towards African Americans, global warming, women’s rights, and political disparity. Her books are now taught in schools and universities across the U.S.