Dr Marilyn A Roubidoux
Marilyn A. Roubidoux, M.D., works to bring existing medical tools to the underserved to diagnose cancer and identify risk factors for the disease.
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Dr Matilda Arabella Evans
Dr. Matilda Evans was the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina.
Victoria Ocampo
Victoria Ocampo is best-known for founding the prestigious literary magazine Sur (South) (1931) and a publishing company by the same name (1933).
Elena Poniatowska
Elena Poniatowska is the author of close to thirteen books, including La noche de Tlatelolco (Massacre in Mexico) (1971) , Fuerte es el silencio (Silence is Strong) (1975), Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela (Dear Diego, Quiela Hugs You) (1978), Nada, nadie: Las voces del temblor (Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake) (1988), and most recently Ida y vuelta: Entrevistas (Back and Forth: Interviews) (2017).
Carmen Boullosa
Carmen Boullosa is the author of seventeen novels, fifteen poetry collections, four plays, two collections of short stories, and a screenplay.
Florence Collins
Florence Collins, geologist and aviator, was a woman of adventure and an important part of Denali National Park and Preserve’s long history of scientific research.
Ruth Sandvik
In addition to running the Trading Post in Kotzebue, Alaska, Ruth was influential in local politics and an avid historian, naturalist, and adventurer. She earned a degree in Biology and was one of University of Alaska Fairbanks’ first Inupiaq graduates. Ruth and her family were a critical support for the Archaelogical work conducted in Kobuk Valley National Park by Louis Giddings and Doug Anderson. She had a passion for history and the heritage of the Iñupiat.
Shirley Williams
Pacific Northwest Indigenous activist Shirley Williams has been a force in using the ancestral homelands of the San Juan Island National Historical Park as a site for community healing through preservation of the Straits Salish culture.
Margaret Murie
Margaret “Mardy” Murie was a naturalist partner, and a pioneering female conservationist.
Georgia Nugent
In late 1903, Georgia organized a state-wide Black women’s clubs’ event with her sister Alice, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and other activists. On December 31, 1903, they formed the Kentucky Chapter of the Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs.