Lakshmi Puri
Lakshmi Puri is a former Assistant Secretary-General at the United Nations and the former Deputy Executive Director of UN Women.
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Irena Sawicka
Irena Scheur-Sawicka was a Polish archaeologist, ethnographer, and educational and communist activist who joined joined the Polish Workers’ Party during World War II.
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Minnie Fisher Cunningham was an American suffrage activist, who was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters.
Keisha Lance Bottoms
Keisha Lance Bottoms was elected the 60th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia in 2017.
Maria Feodorovna
Maria Feodorovna was Empress consort of Russia as the second wife of Tsar Paul I, and the founder of the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria, an imperial government charitable agency.
Agrippina the Elder
Agrippina I was the granddaughter of the Roman Emperor Augustus, and played a key role in the succession struggles under Tiberius (who ruled C.E. 14–37).
Ángela Jeria
Chilean archaeologist, the mother of Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and the wife of the Chilean Air Force
Zhang Yao’er
Zhang Yao’er (章要兒).z was an empress of the Chinese Chen Dynasty
Mama Ocllo
Mama Ocllo was a princess and queen consort (Coya), of the Inca Empire
Naqi’a
Naqi’a was influential in the politics of the Assyrian throne 680–627 B.C.E., serving in an advisory role under the title of queen mother.