Deb Haaland
Secretary Deb Haaland made history when she became the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.
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Adeline Davis
Canadian temperance reformer and author
Hazel Wolf
Hazel Wolf was well known as an environmentalist and social activist.
Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white person months before Rosa Parks.
Cori Bush
As a member of Congress, Bush pushes for progressive legislative goals that will benefit her constituents—people just like her.
Dr Sharon M Malotte
Dr. Sharon Malotte was the first indigenous Nevadan to become a doctor in 1989.
Inés Arredondo
Inés Arredondo wrote several books, as well as essay collections and published two anthologies.
Dr Marie Amos Dobyns
Dr. Marie Amos Dobyns is an Eastern Cherokee Native American, who fully integrates her Indian heritage into her medical practice.
Dr Linda Susan Aranaydo
Dr. Linda Aranaydo, a Muscogee Creek Indian, Kialegee Tribal Town, Bear Clan, has devoted her life to serving her family and her community and is a role model for other women who wish to enter medicine.
Dr Joan Y Reede
In 2001, Dr. Joan Reede was appointed Harvard Medical School’s first dean for diversity and community partnership. She is the first African American woman to hold a position of that rank at HMS and one of the few African American women to hold a deanship at a medical school in the United States.