Helen Kirkpatrick Watts
Deaf British suffragist
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Kate Harvey
Deaf British suffragist
Laura Redden Searing
Deaf American suffragist
Augusta Saint-Gaudens
American painter overshadowed by her husband
Georgia Elliott
Pioneer in the Deaf women’s rights movement
Dr Helen Brooke Taussig
Dr. Helen Taussig was the first woman to become the president of the American Heart Association.
Danni Askini
Danni Askini is a transgender activist who is from Seattle, Washington. She is one of the founders of the Gender Justice League, a transgender rights advocacy organization based in Capitol Hill.
Hannah Tomiko Holmes
Educator and disability rights activist
Tilly Edinger
Prominent Jewish German-American paleontologist.
Gertrude Ederle
Olympic champion, world record holder and the first woman to swim across the English Channel.