Dr Clara Pinto Correia
Clara Pinto Correia is the author of over 50 books of fiction and non-fiction.
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Ana Merino
Ana Merino has published nine books of poetry, among them: Preparativos para un viaje (Preparations for a Journey) (1995), winner of the Adonáis Award, Los días gemelos (Twin Days) (1997), La voz de los relojes (The Voice of the Clocks) (2000), Juegos de niños (Children’s Games) (2003), which won the Fray Luis de León Award, Hagamos caso al tigre (Let’s Listen To the Tiger) (2010) and El viaje del vikingo soñado (The Dream Viking’s Voyage) (2015).
Dr Ana Luísa Amaral
Ana Luísa Amaral was a poet, essayist, professor, translator, novelist and author of children’s literature.
Dr Alicia de Colombí-Monguió
Alicia de Colombí-Monguió is the author of three poetry collections including El aguardante (The One Who Awaits) (1970), Ser al sesgo y otras imitaciones (Being on the Bias and Other Imitations) (1981) y 31 sonetos (31 Sonnets) (1982).
Ruth Sandvik
In addition to running the Trading Post in Kotzebue, Alaska, Ruth was influential in local politics and an avid historian, naturalist, and adventurer. She earned a degree in Biology and was one of University of Alaska Fairbanks’ first Inupiaq graduates. Ruth and her family were a critical support for the Archaelogical work conducted in Kobuk Valley National Park by Louis Giddings and Doug Anderson. She had a passion for history and the heritage of the Iñupiat.
Ruth Wilson
Ruth Wilson was hired by the NSA in 1918 as a Spanish linguist for the first peacetime cryptologic service MI-8 better known as the “American Black Chamber.”
Agnes Mongan
First woman museum curator at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum
Anna Brownell Jameson
Irish-English writer, feminist, and art historian
Kate Graham Cook
James Cook and Kate Graham first discovered the fossil deposits later to become known as Agate Fossil Beds.
Betty Reid Soskin
Civil rights activist, musician, and pioneering businesswoman.