Diane Nash
American civil rights activist
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Alice Guy-Blaché
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’.
Dr Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold, PhD, is a biochemical engineer who pioneered how to harness evolution to create proteins, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018), becoming the first American woman to do so.
Dr Barbara Ross-Lee
Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., became the first African American woman to be appointed dean of an American medical school in 1993.
Juana Briones
1800s Mexican-American pioneer, businesswoman, healer, and landowner
Billie Barry
Irish performer and stage school founder
Abedo
When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Abedo was among the many who fought back.
Myrlie Evers–Williams
Civil rights activist
Tye Leung Schulze
Civil rights and community activist