Dr Martha Medrano
Dr. Martha Medrano is a pioneer in medical education who wants works to make medical students more culturally competent.
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Virginia Jenkins Riley
In the early 1960s, Riley was one of the designers and programmers of a general program written for the UNIVAC 490, the first computer designed specifically for real-time applications at NSA. In the late 1960s, she moved to the Cryptanalysis Department at the National Cryptologic School, where she developed a new course in Cryptanalytic Diagnostics.
Dr Mary Hasbah Roessel
Dr. Mary H. Roessel was the first person in her Diné (Navajo) community to attend medical school and become a doctor (1987) and the first woman Diné (Navajo) psychiatrist to provide Indian Health Service clinical care in New Mexico.
Dr Clara Pinto Correia
Clara Pinto Correia is the author of over 50 books of fiction and non-fiction.
Paula Anderson
Paula “Polly” Liebau emigrated to the U.S. from Germany as a young woman, following the allure of gold to Alaska. Along with her prospecting partner and husband, John Anderson, Paula crossed the Alaska Range by dog team, arriving to mine in the Kantishna District in 1918.
Florence Collins
Florence Collins, geologist and aviator, was a woman of adventure and an important part of Denali National Park and Preserve’s long history of scientific research.
Dr Linda Susan Aranaydo
Dr. Linda Aranaydo, a Muscogee Creek Indian, Kialegee Tribal Town, Bear Clan, has devoted her life to serving her family and her community and is a role model for other women who wish to enter medicine.
Dr Linda S Austin
Through her lectures, workshops, syndicated radio programs and other communications media, Linda Austin, M.D., expands her clinical care to educate people across the country on substance abuse and mental health issues.
Dr Lori Arviso Alvord
Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord became the first Navajo woman to be board certified in surgery in 1994.
Dr Lucille C Norville Perez
Lucille Perez, M.D., was associate director of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. She was a leading authority on substance abuse and HIV prevention, and headed the internationally renowned Faculty Department Program at CSAP.