Elaine Toms
Working in the field of nuclear physics, Toms put everything into career and the work that she did had value, most especially for the women who followed her.
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Jane Wallis Burrell
The first CIA officer to die while employed by the Agency.
Jeanne Vertefeuille
CIA officer
Rachel A Dean
In September 2006, Rachel, an Agency support officer, died in a traffic accident while on temporary duty overseas.
Susan Meiselas
Photojournalist who has won awards for her intense images that are as much at home in newspapers and magazines as they are on museum walls.
Helen Johns Kirtland
Helen Johns Kirtland was an early woman war photojournalist active at the end of World War I. She was the “the first and only woman correspondent allowed at the front after Caporetto, the 1917 Italian retreat in which 275,000 troops were captured.”
Sarah Emma Edmonds
Served in the US Civil War disguised as a man
Wilma Zimmerman Davis
With a degree in mathematics and a Navy correspondence course on cryptology Wilma Davis was hired to work in the Army’s Signal Intelligence Service in the late 1930s.
Marion Frieswyk
OSS cartographer during WWII
Maria Gulovich
Maria Gulovich, a young Slovakian schoolteacher, was only 23 when she began harboring Jews from the Nazis. She joined the underground resistance and began working for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as a guide and interpreter.