Edith Kanakaʻole

Edith Kanaka’ole (also affectionately called “Aunty Edith”), a native Hawaiian composer, chanter and dancer, was a champion for the preservation of native Hawaiian culture and arts. Kanaka’ole lead the highly celebrated dance school, Hālau o Kekuhi, where her legacy as a Kumu Hula, or chief practitioner of traditional Hawaiian dance and culture, took flight. 

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Susan M Osborne

American philanthropist. At the age of nineteen, she founded the Home for Friendless Women and Girls in New York City, and later established a refuge shelter there.

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Alice Eleanor Cossey

As ATU secretary, Cossey was a leading advocate of higher wages for women. When she retired in 1945 she left behind a strong union which was the oldest surviving women’s union in New Zealand.

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