Nancy Azara
American sculptor, painter, and educator
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Harper Lee
Harper Lee is recognized for her contribution to American literature with her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Holly Iglesias
Holly Iglesias is a poet, translator, and author of poetry collections Angles of Approach (White Pine Press, 2010) and Souvenirs of a Shrunken World (Kore Press, 2008).
Jacqueline Woodson
Popular writer of books for young people
Cheryl Haworth
Often called “the strongest woman in the United States,” Cheryl Haworth is a competitive weight lifter who emerged in the late 1990s as a popular icon for women in sports. While still a teenager, she became national champion, junior world champion, and an Olympic medalist.
Mary Ann Finegan
Vctim of anti-gay violence in Cleveland.
Brittany Stergis
A transgender woman who was killed in 2013.
Betty Skinner
Transgender woman killed in 2013
Grace Longwell Coyle
American sociologist, author, and educator, specialized in social reform through group activity while professor at the School of Applied Sciences of Western Reserve University (later Case Western) for almost 30 years.
Stella Walsh
Polish-American runner named the greatest woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century by the Helm Athletic Foundation (1951)