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Puhi-o-Aotea Rātahi

Puhi-o-Aotea Rātahi was the third president of the Rātana church.

Bishop Barbara Lewis King, affectionately called Dr. Barbara, is the Founder/Minister of the Hillside Chapel and Truth Center, Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2001, she became the first female to be enstooled as a Chief at Assin Nsuta, Ghana, West Africa.

Kiyome Tsuda

Kiyome Hirai Tsuda was a kibei, a US citizen educated in Japan, who exemplified the deep connections between Hawai‘i and Japan before World War II.

Áine Hardiman

Dominican nun, community activist and anti-apartheid campaigner

Lieutenant Commander Mildred McAfee

She became the Navy’s first female line officer on 3 August 1942. Commissioned a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve, she simultaneously undertook the demanding task of Director of the Navy’s newly-established Women’s Reserve. In November 1943, following the passage of new legislation by the Congress, she was promoted to the rank of Captain.

Annette Paul

Annette Paul was one of a small number of educated women who were influential in the fledgeling Salvation Army in New Zealand.

Haruko Takahashi

Japanese-American Shintō priestess who spent part of World War II imprisoned at Honouliuli Internment Camp on O’ahu, Hawai’i

Nannie Helen Burroughs

African-American educator, speaker, religious leader, civil rights activist, feminist, and businesswoman

Jane Lead

Christian mystic whose spiritual visions, recorded in a series of publications, were central to the founding and philosophy of the Philadelphian Society in London in the 1600s