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Marian Wright Edelman

Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund and an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life.

She was a pioneer of the French and American film industries during the silent era and the first woman to have a career as a director, yet her work and career have largely been overlooked throughout history.

Louisa Baker

Louisa Alice Baker was a prolific writer who described herself as ‘bred under the Southern Cross, held cheaply there – and labelled in London’.

Rachel Benton

Paleontologist with the US National Park Service

Florida Ruffin Ridley

While Florida Ruffin Ridley followed in the footsteps of her mother, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, she paved her own way as a writer, activist, and community leader.

Olivia Robello Breitha

Renowned author and Hansen’s disease activist who resided in Kalaupapa from 1937 until her death in 2006.

Haruko Takahashi

Japanese-American Shintō priestess who spent part of World War II imprisoned at Honouliuli Internment Camp on O’ahu, Hawai’i

Harriet Quimby

The first American woman to earn a pilot’s license and the first woman to make a solo flight across the English Channel

Anna Louise Strong

Prolific writer and journalist who brought socialist politics to the mountains when she co-founded Cooperative Campers of the Pacific Northwest in 1916.