L Jane Hastings
Architects around the world, and particularly women architects in Seattle and Washington, have long looked to L. Jane Hastings as an exemplar and professional leader, and often the first to achieve key professional aspirations.
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Esther Hall Mumford
Esther Hall Mumford is a Seattle researcher, a writer, a publisher and an authority on the history of African Americans in the Pacific Northwest.
Sarah Tarleton Colvin
American nurse, author and National Women’s Party president
Eliza Douglas Keith
American educator, author, journalist, social reformer and suffragist
Franca Arena
Arena always voiced pride in her Italian heritage and became a prominent figure in Sydney’s Italian community, working as a journalist on the Italian-language newspaper La Fiamma, and a broadcaster on ethnic community radio.
Barbara Earl Thomas
The former Executive Director of Seattle’s Northwest African American Museum, Barbara Earl Thomas is far more than an institutional administrator. She is also an inspiring lecturer on the topics of art and culture and — as the University of Washington Press notes — a “painter and writer of prodigious talent and remarkable visionary sensibility.”
Edith Buxbaum
Viennese-born psychoanalyst Edith Buxbaum wrote Your Child Makes Sense (1949) and Troubled Children in a Troubled World (1970).
Dr Paloma Vargas Montes
Mexican academic and postdoctoral researcher.
Isabel Vericat Núñez
Spanish-Mexican lawyer, writer, researcher and translator.
Dorothy Lawrence
During the First World War, Lawrence disguised herself as a man, and using the alias Denis Smith, joined the British Army.