Marla Runyan
Legally blind since childhood, Olympic track and field athlete and marathon runner Marla Runyan never let her vision loss stand in the way of her athletic dreams.
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Tilly Aston
Tilly Aston, ‘Australia’s Own Helen Keller’ was a blind writer and teacher who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers and later went on to establish and become secretary of the Association for the Advancement of the Blind.
Gloria Rawlinson
New Zealand poet, novelist, short-story writer and editor
Lucrezia Aguiari
1700s opera singer
Agnes Franz
Polish-German poet
Lesbia Venner Harford
Australian poet
Rosemary Nelson
Irish human rights lawyer
Laura Hershey
American poet, journalist, and disability rights activist. Known for her powerful writing and advocacy, she explored themes of disability, identity, and social justice.
Eleanor Abbott
Eleanor Abbott created the game Candy Land while she was recovering from polio
Alice Walker
American author, poet, and activist whose most famous work, “The Color Purple,” published in 1982, is a seminal novel in American literature, known for its powerful portrayal of African American women’s lives in the early 20th century South.