Nancy Tyson Burbidge
Nancy Tyson Burbidge AM was an Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and curator of the CSIRO herbarium.
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Abigail Bush
Abigail Norton Bush was an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist who served as president of the Rochester Women’s Rights Convention, held in 1848 immediately after the Seneca Falls Convention.
Susan Fowler
Susan Joy Fowler is a writer and software engineer known for influencing institutional changes in how Uber and Silicon Valley companies respond to sexual harassment.
Pat Parker
Pat Parker was an American poet and activist who drew from her experiences as an African-American lesbian feminist. Her poetry spoke to her difficult childhood growing up in poverty, coping with sexual assault, and the murder of her sister.
Luisa Moreno
Luisa Moreno was a labor organizer and civil rights activist in the United States.
Mastoureh Afshar
Mastoureh Afshar was an Iranian intellectual, feminist, and leading figure in Iran’s women’s rights movement.
Ángela Jeria
Chilean archaeologist, the mother of Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and the wife of the Chilean Air Force
Amabel Anderson Arnold
Amabel Anderson Arnold LL.M. was an American lawyer and law professor who received degrees from both Benton College of Law and City College of Law and Finance within a five-day period.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose works range from novels to short stories to nonfiction.
Mary L Bonauto
Mary L. Bonauto is an American lawyer and civil rights advocate who has fought against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.