Amy Meyer
The “Mother of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area,” Amy Meyer is a Bay Area conservationist who helped forge local and national support to preserve the land at the Golden Gate as a national park in the 1970s.
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Joyce Ladner
Sisters Dorie and Joyce Ladner grew up in Mississippi and became civil rights activists as teenagers in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Rosa Dixon Bowser
A noted educator and nationally known club woman, Bowser developed night classes and led summer teaching institutes throughout the state of Virginia for African American educators. She would later become a founder and president of the Virginia State Teachers Association.
Reema Zaman
Reema Zaman is the author of the memoir, I am Yours, where she shares a story of hope as she guides the reader through her life.
Yolanda Alaniz
Chicana socialist working for women, LGBT, workers’ and immigrant rights
Naima Shaltu
Shaltu started her blog, Story of a Hijabi, to change the narrative about Muslims, women, and people of color
Juanita Lewis Russell
Juanita Lewis Russell was an African American activist, artist, poet and teacher
Nikkita Oliver
US activist against injustice in the legal system.
Kathleen Hanna
American singer, musician and pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer
Carrie Shaw Rice
Carrie Shaw Rice was a pioneering educator, poet, and author who helped broaden the role of women in education in the early years of Tacoma, Washington.