Wallis Annenberg
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.
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Gladys Noon Spellman
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.
Judith Marx Wieder
Cleveland, Ohio businesswoman
Melissa Fay Greene
Melissa Fay Greene’s award-winning books Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing chronicle dramatic episodes in the civil rights movement in Georgia (U.S.).
Ruth Alexander
South African suffragist
Sheila Weinberg
South African political, anti-apartheid and human rights activist
Sheila Lapinsky
South African anti-apartheid, women’s rights and queer rights activist
Rica Hodgson
Rica Hodgson devoted her life to the struggle for democracy in South Africa
Rebecca Lan
South African social researcher and activist
Sadie Forman
A fierce non-sectarian and advocate for racial equality and women’s rights in South Africa