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Abbie Carrington
American opera singer
Abby Hutchinson Patton
American singer and poet
Jamila Jones
Jamila Jones sang professionally as a teenager with the Montgomery Gospel Trio and the Harambee Singers. In 1958, she came to the Highlander Folk School for nonviolent activist training.
Nicolle Swims
Nicolle Swims is a Black, Queer and Nonbinary musician who is the guitarist and vocalist of local Seattle gunk-pop band Black Ends
Monae Smith
Monae Smith, known as Medusa, is the Queen of Underground Hip Hop in the Pacific Northwest.
Dr Nettie Craig Asberry
African-American suffragist and civil rights activist
Jaiden Grayson
Jaiden Grayson is an artist, musician, and compassionate activist.
Kathleen Hanna
American singer, musician and pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer
Carrie Shaw Rice
Carrie Shaw Rice was a pioneering educator, poet, and author who helped broaden the role of women in education in the early years of Tacoma, Washington.