Dr Ana Luísa Amaral
Ana Luísa Amaral was a poet, essayist, professor, translator, novelist and author of children’s literature.
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Brenda Cárdenas
Brenda Cárdenas, an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the author of the two poetry collections, “From the Tongues of Brick and Stone” and “Boomerang,” and co-editor of “Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest.”
Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of close to seventeen books, including Nadie me verá llorar (No One Will See Me Cry) (1999), La cresta de Ilión (The Iliac Crest) (2002), La Muerte me da (Death Hits) (2007), and El mal de la taiga (The Taiga Syndrome) (2012).
Dr Linda M Dairiki Shortliffe
Dr. Linda M. Dairki Shortliffe built a successful career in the relatively new field of pediatric urology when very few women surgeons were doing such work. Since 1988, she has been at the Stanford University School of Medicine Medical Center and Packard Children’s Hospital as chief of pediatric urology. Since 1993, she has also been director of the Urology Residency Program at Stanford, and has been successful in recruiting more women physicians to her specialty.
Viva Donaldson
Her contribution to the affairs of Whangārei during her several interwoven careers was that of a capable and sensible person.
Mary Elizabeth Richmond
Richmond published slim volumes of poetry in 1898, 1903 and 1942. She was a prolific writer of letters, articles and sermons, and of songs, plays and stories for children.
Dr Judith Salmon Kaur
Dr. Judith S. Kaur has devoted her career to the improvement of survival rates for American Indians with cancer. Although she had planned to return to the reservation after medical school to practice medicine, she has instead devoted her career to scientific research. Fascinated with the study of cancer, she now makes her contribution to the health of American Indian populations at the forefront of medical science.
Dr JudyAnn Bigby
JudyAnn Bigby, M.D., served as director of the Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence in Women’s Health and is nationally recognized for her pioneering work educating physicians on the provision of care to people with histories of substance abuse.
Marion Dickerman
American political activist
Dr Helene D Gayle
Assistant surgeon general and rear admiral in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.