Yoshiko Yamanouchi
Yoshiko Yamanouchi (1895–1973) was an early Buddhist community leader, businesswoman, and amateur painter.
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Sae Tachikawa
Picture bride who was a noted educator and promoter of Japanese culture in Hawai’i.
Benedicta Riepp
Mother Benedicta (Sybilla) Riepp was the founder of the Roman Catholic Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict in North America. By 1946, Saint Benedict’s Monastery was the largest community of Benedictine Sisters in the world.
Kateri Tekakwitha
The first North American indigenous person to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church
Maria Grant
Canadian social reformer, suffragist, school trustee, secretary, probation officer, and Unity movement preacher
Dr Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
US civil rights activist Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and one of three women chosen to be a field director for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.
Ada Kepley
American attorney, temperance agitator and minister
Bertha Landes
In 1926, Bertha Landes was the first woman to be elected as mayor in part of a major U.S. city; Seattle. She brought a vision to clean up the corrupted city streets, and improve the public services.
Eliza Ann Gardner
Remembered as someone “pointed and convincing in speech, winning in manner, [and] overpowering in appeal,” community and religious leader Eliza Ann Gardner exemplified the social activist tradition within African-American churches.
Concepción Acevedo y de la Llata
Mexican writer and nun.