Rachel Armitage
New Zealand welfare worker, community leader
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Rāhera Te Kahuhiapō
Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāti Pūkenga woman of mana
Mary Elizabeth Gibbs
New Zealand community leader
Mīria Pōmare
Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki community leader
Ngā-kahu-whero
Te Rarawa woman of mana
Margaret Byers
Irish educationist, suffragist, and philanthropist
Alice Allison Dunnigan
In 1961, President Kennedy acknowledged Alice Dunnigan as the first African American White House correspondent after two years of being ignored. She became the first Black woman in the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries.
Maria Pellegrina Amoretti
In 1777, after being rejected by the University of Turin, Maria Pellegrina Amoretti graduated at 21 in Iure utroque (civil and canon Law) at the University of Pavia, defending her doctoral theses.
Phoebe Cary
American poet and women’s rights activist
Dr Kate Waller Barrett
American physician, humanitarian, and social reformer