Genet Sium
Eritrean figure writer, activist and nurse whose life and work have been shaped by her involvement in the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) during the war for Eritrean independence from Ethiopia.
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Carmen Pereira
Pioneering Bissau-Guinean politician, physician, and women’s rights advocate
Choua Lee Yang
Hmong refugee and educator
Andrée Blouin
A pivotal figure in the African independence movement of the 1960s.
Alina Pienkowska
Alina Pienkowska was a nurse who played a significant role in the Solidarność movement against the communist regime in Poland.
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
Lucía Sánchez Saornil is known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organization with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. She was passionate about self-education and wrote poetry (under the male pen name Luciano de San Saor) about industrialism, religion, marriage, anarchism, and economic revolution. She also expressed lesbian desire in times when queerness was not only not accepted but risked arrest.
Florence Sabin
Florence Rena Sabin was the first woman to hold a full professorship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to lead a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. In her retirement years, she transitioned into a role as a public health activist in Colorado.
Alicia Moreau de Justo
Alicia Moreau de Justo was a prominent Argentine physician and politician known for her contributions to feminism and socialism.
Mary Cunningham
Irish philanthropist and war worker
Jennifer Musa
Irish-Pakistani politician, tribal elder and nurse