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Velma Veloria

In 1992, Veloria became the first Filipina in the United States to be elected to a state legislature.

Nurhaliza Mohmath

Mohamath, as the food justice coordinator for the Rainier Beach Action Coalition (RBAC) works directly with Black, Brown, Indigenous and other people of color farmers and advocates to support them.

Hazel Wolf

Hazel Wolf was well known as an environmentalist and social activist.

Clara Fraser

Clara Fraser was incredibly passionate about workers and women’s rights as well as fighting against the segregation that was present in Seattle in the mid-1900s.

Mary Player

New Zealand midwife, welfare worker, feminist and social reformer

Joan Baez

Folk singer and social rights activist Joan Baez uses her voice to advance social change.

Nancy Cook

Activist for woman’s suffrage, protective labor legislation for women, the abolishment of child labor, and world peace.

In 1972, Renetta Predmore-Lynch learned she had been denied a promotion because of her gender and registered a complaint with NSA’s Equal Employment Opportunity office. It was determined that the promotion process violated its own evaluation rules, and excluded women from the promotion boards.

Addie L Wyatt

One of the US’s foremost labor union leaders, women’s rights advocate and civil rights activist.

Clara Lemlich Shavelson

Clara Lemlich Shavelson is known primarily for her part in the 1909 garment workers strike in New York City, often referred to as the Uprising of 20,000.