Judy-Lynn del Rey
Book editor who revolutionized sci-fi/fantasy publishing
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Doris Irene Taylor
Meals on Wheels founder
Helen Kirkpatrick Watts
Deaf British suffragist
Elizabeth Casey
Irish author (as ‘E. Owens Blackburne ’)
Anne Brunell
Australian gold medal winning swimmer, and Vice President of the Amputees Association.
Dorothy Cottrell
Disabled Australian author Dorothy Cottrell was ‘the Liane Moriarty of the Jazz Age’ but is almost unheard of here
Marilyn Strack
In 1973, Missy Voigt and Marilyn Strack were hired as seasonal rangers at Muir Woods. Strack worked at Muir Woods for over two years, and she was one of the first disabled employees at the park.
Dr Lisa I Iezzoni
In 1998, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni was the first woman to be appointed professor in the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA.
Eileen Szychowski
American disability activist
Stella Young
Referring to herself as a ‘crip’, Stella controversially challenged people in the way they perceived disability and what it means to live as a disabled person. She described ‘crip’ as a liberating word; a term that seemed to horrify people but that made her feel strong and powerful.