Nancy Power
Irish Celticist, member of Cumann na nBan, and civil servant
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Anna Parnell
Irish nationalist and land activist
Dorothy Tangney
The first Australian woman senator.
Carol Moseley Braun
Carol Moseley Braun served in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999 as a Democrat from Illinois.
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Mexican-American labor rights activist
Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Korbel Albright became the US’s first woman Secretary of State in 1997.
Edith Nourse Rogers
American champion of veterans and women in the military
Georgeann Robinson
Robinson and her two sisters, Genevieve Tomey and Louise Red Corn, began to produce the old design of Osage ribbonwork, a form of needlework that they had learned from tribal elders. Soon they were researching additional designs, digging into neighbors’ trunks, and traveling to distant museums. In time, their trademark, “Ribbonwork a Specialty,” attracted customers nationwide.
Molly Dewson
American feminist and political activist
Shirley Staschen Triest
Coit Tower muralist and labor protester