Abby Fisher
Formerly enslaved plantation cook who built a business as an upscale caterer and cookbook author
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Sue Bailey Thurman
Sue Bailey Thurman (1903-1996) founded the Museum of African American History in 1963
Susan Paul
In the 1830s, Susan Paul (1809-41) taught at the Smith School on Joy Street, a segregated school for African American children funded jointly by the city and private donations. Paul was also an officer in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.
Whitney Sherman
Often using multiple media in her work, Sherman is a multifaceted artist, designer, educator, lecturer and writer.
Alice Mary Norton
The first woman inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame was a librarian who wrote as Andre Norton
Alma Reed
Many in Mexico revere Alma Reed, known as La Peregrina (“the Pilgrim”) for her sensitive journalism.
Martha Vogel
Mexican short story writer and novelist
Dr Asunción Rangel
Mexican writer, editor, researcher and professor.
Emmy Destinn
Czech operatic soprano
Marya D Moses
Pioneering female commercial fisherwoman working from the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County