Floy Agnes Lee
Lee’s biology research at the university led her to be recruited to work in the hematology lab for the Manhattan Project in 1945.
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Ann
Ann was a Pamunkey chief in the 1600s and 1700s
Margarita Neri
Zapatista commander and a soldadera during the Mexican Revolution.
Kathy Caraccio
Collage artist and master printer Kathy Caraccio opened her own thriving New York printing studio in 1977, where she has collaborated with such artists as Emma Amos, Robert Kipniss, Louise Nevelson, and Adam Pitt.
Kay WalkingStick
New York-based artist and member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
Ai Ogawa
American poet
Zipporah
While residing at the Three Cranes Tavern from 1757 to 1775, Zipporah an enslaved Indigenous woman, would have cooked, cleaned and served the patrons at the Tavern.
June Townsend Gentry
June Townsend Gentry (Yuchi/Choctaw) served in the US Coast Guard during World War II, one of the 800 Native American women to join the US military.
Christina McDonald Williams
American businesswoman and translator
Marya D Moses
Pioneering female commercial fisherwoman working from the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County