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Grace Rhys

Irish author, editor, and poet

Florence Ada Mary Lamb Polson

New Zealand women’s rights activist and writer

Maraea Mōrete

Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki woman of mana, writer

Mary Bolton

Irish alcholism counsellor

Bertha Lutz

Notable Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat and played a key role in the Pan-American feminist and human rights movements. Her efforts were crucial in achieving women’s suffrage in Brazil.

Pioneering Swedish educator known for her work with students with intellectual disabilities. She founded the first institution for such students in Gothenburg in 1866, providing education and supportive home and asylum for patients.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

American activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. She played a crucial role in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches and later became a vice president at the Schiller Institute.

Irena Sendler

Vital member of the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw, heading the children’s section of Żegota from October 1943.