Alice Schalek
Austrian journalist, writer, editor, photographer and novelist
Austrian journalist, writer, editor, photographer and novelist
Award-winning American novelist
Since becoming chairman of the board, president, and CEO of the Annenberg Foundation in 2009, Wallis Annenberg has helped transform and bolster the arts and humanities in public life, especially in her adopted home of Los Angeles.
Gladys Noon Spellman rose through the ranks of Maryland politics to become an influential advocate for the federal workforce in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Cleveland, Ohio businesswoman
Melissa Fay Greeneās award-winning books Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing chronicle dramatic episodes in the civil rights movement in Georgia (U.S.).
South African suffragist
South African political, anti-apartheid and human rights activist
South African anti-apartheid, women’s rights and queer rights activist
Rica Hodgson devoted her life to the struggle for democracy in South Africa