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Dr Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott

Canadian physician, pathologist, museum curator, professor, cardiologist, author, and editor

Eliza Lo Chin, M.D., has drawn inspiration from her female colleagues who strive to combine family responsibilities with a career in medicine. She has collected their experiences in her book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine, published in 2002. For her continuing work on women’s issues in medicine, Dr. Chin was nominated for the New York branch of the American Medical Women’s Association’s Outstanding Woman Physician Award for the year 2000.

Ada Limón

24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress

Anna Brownell Jameson

Irish-English writer, feminist, and art historian

Helena Blackwood

1800s baroness of Dufferin and Clandeboye, countess of Gifford, author and songwriter

Elizebeth Smith Friedman

Cryptanalyst and pioneer in U.S. cryptology

Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward is the acclaimed author of the novels “Where the Line Bleeds,” “Salvage the Bones,” winner of the 2011 National Book Award, and “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” winner of the 2017 National Book Award. Her nonfiction work includes the memoir “Men We Reaped,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2020 work “Navigate Your Stars.”