Augusta Saint-Gaudens
American painter overshadowed by her husband
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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
Gertrude Ederle
Olympic champion, world record holder and the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Elizabeth Matilda Taylor
Blind/Deaf activist and Braille magazine editor
Connie Birchfield
New Zealand communist activist
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Leavitt was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variables. This was a vital step in measuring the distance to remote galaxies.
Gabriela Lena Frank
Identity has always been at the center of composer/pianist Gabriela Lena Frank’s music.