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Ruby Foo
Ruby Foo moved to Boston in 1923 where she began a single-room restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown. Its popularity quickly grew, and she opened Ruby Foo’s “Den” in 1929—heralded as the first Chinese restaurant to successfully cater to non-Chinese clientele.
Elizabeth Murray
1700s Scottish-American businesswoman and philanthropist
Toni Bullock
Pioneering funeral home owner, a WWII radio operator, and the youngest Black woman to earn an embalming license in Massachusetts.
Tommiejo Dixon
Tommiejo Dixon opened Ma Dixon’s in 1943, which is now a fixture of Boston’s food scene.
Abby Fisher
Formerly enslaved plantation cook who built a business as an upscale caterer and cookbook author
Christina McDonald Williams
American businesswoman and translator
Marya D Moses
Pioneering female commercial fisherwoman working from the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County
Dr Marjorie Apthorpe
Geologist who worked for over forty years as a paleontologist in the petroleum industry.
Alana Johnson
A founding member of Australian Women in Agriculture in 1993, she is recognized nationally and internationally for her work in Change Management, Leadership Training and Rural Development and was the 2010 Victorian Rural Women’s Award winner