Annie Schnackenberg
New Zealand Wesleyan missionary, temperance and welfare worker and suffragist
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Rachel Don
New Zealand church and community worker
Harriet Keeler
Keeler was a Cleveland educator, botanist, author, suffragist, and lover of nature. Each aspect of her self-made career brought her a measure of celebrity far beyond northeast Ohio.
Helen Nicol
New Zealand suffragist and temperance campaigner
Mary Player
New Zealand midwife, welfare worker, feminist and social reformer
Asieh Amini
Journalist and poet Asieh Amini is a leading voice in the campaign to end stoning and juvenile executions in Iran. Targeted by the state for her reporting and activism, she fled Iran in 2009, but continues to fight against censorship and other human rights abuses in the country.
Tarana Burke
As an activist, community organizer, and executive, Burke has been widely recognized for her work, and was named Person of the Year by TIME Magazine in 2017.
Liya Kebede
Advocate for maternal, newborn, and child health around the world. A social entrepreneur, Kebede uses her clothing company lemlem to promote both economic opportunities and access to reproductive healthcare for women in Ethiopia.
Maybanke Susannah Anderson
Maybanke Anderson was a leader in the suffrage movement in New South Wales and a writer.
Ada M Bittenbender
American lawyer and reformer