Emily Randall
US Representative from Washington
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Joy Ladin
Joy Ladin’s return to Yeshiva University as a woman after receiving tenure as a man made her the first openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution. Her memoir of gender transition, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders, was a finalist for a 2012 National Jewish Book Award, and winner of a Forward Fives award.
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
21st century American writer
Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz is a journalist and the author of several science fiction and nonfiction books, including the national bestseller “Four Lost Cities.”
Ariana Benson
African-American southern ecopoet. Her debut collection, Black Pastoral, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the 2024 Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and was a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Leonard Prize and the Library of Virginia Prize in Poetry.
Diana Goetsch
American poet and essayist
Eileen Mary Challans
Mary Renault (pseudonym of Eileen Mary Challans) was a British lesbian writer best known for her widely read historical-fiction novels set in ancient Greece that gained her a large following among straight and gay readers alike.
Dr Penny Whetton
Pioneering climate scientist
Judith Baca
Chicana lesbian feminist artist
Darlugdach
Irish saint and 6th century abbess of Kildare