Dr Olivia J Hooker
Dr. Olivia J. Hooker, a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre, blazed a trail as the first Black woman on active duty in the US Coast Guard.
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Dr Ruth Westheimer
Famed sex therapist
Danuta Gierulanka
Danuta Gierulanka was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and psychologist. She wrote interesting works on mathematical education and on the philosophy of mathematics.
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
“America’s first lady of engineering”, industrial efficiency expert.
Lilli Vincenz
German-American LGBTQIA+ rights activist
Edith Buxbaum
Viennese-born psychoanalyst Edith Buxbaum wrote Your Child Makes Sense (1949) and Troubled Children in a Troubled World (1970).
Dr Claire Weekes
Hazel Weekes was a zoologist noted for her pioneering work on the placentation of viviparous reptiles and its possible relationship to that of mammals.
Mari Okazaki
Mari Okazaki (1916-2005) was a psychiatric social worker who participated in the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS) as a researcher and continued her career in social care in the postwar years.
Franziska Boas
Pioneering dancer, percussionist, teacher, ethnologist, and therapist
Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross pioneered the concept of providing psychological counseling to the dying. In her first book, On Death and Dying (1969), she described five stages she believed were experienced by those nearing death—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.