Mary Patterson
In 1862, Mary Jane Patterson became the first African-American woman to receive a BA degree when she graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. degree and highest honors.
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Dr Flavia Mercado
As a bilingual physician and educator, Dr. Flavia Mercado teaches the value of cultural competency. More than sharing a language, cultural competency requires that physicians are aware of cultural differences and treat all patients respectfully, an ideal Mercado instills in every medical student she teaches.
Nancy Cook
Activist for woman’s suffrage, protective labor legislation for women, the abolishment of child labor, and world peace.
Dr Elizabeth Theresa Lee-Ray
In 2002, she was named co-director of New York’s Hispanic Center of Excellence at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She also has worked to establish a self-sustaining peer-run network aimed at the Hispanic adolescent male, to promote health and prevent disease with community-based support.
Ada Florence Kinton
Canadian artist, teacher, Salvation Army officer, and newspaper edito
Ada Mary Courtice
Canadian educator, social reformer, and office holder
Dr Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott
Canadian physician, pathologist, museum curator, professor, cardiologist, author, and editor
Agnes Mongan
First woman museum curator at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum
Dr Conchita Marie Paz
From 1992 to 1994 she served as president of the New Mexico Hispanic Medical Association.
Dr Elizabeth Odilile Ofili
Dr. Elizabeth O. Ofili was the first woman president of the Association of Black Cardiologists.