Chipeta (1843-1924)

Indian Rights Advocate and Diplomat Chipeta served as a wise and contrary advisor to her husband, a Ute Indian leader. She was a peacemaker, often giving food to starving white families.

Anna Julia Cooper (1858 – 1964)

African American Educator and Author Anna J. Cooper was an author, educator, speaker, and among the leading intellectuals of her time. Born into enslavement, she wrote “A Voice from the South,” widely considered one of the first articulations
of Black feminism.

Agatha Tiegel Hanson (1873-1959)

Educator, Author, and Advocate for Deaf Community Agatha Tiegel Hanson was a
teacher, poet, and advocate for the deaf community. Unable to hear and blind in one eye, she never allowed her disabilities to hold her back as demonstrated by
graduating first in her class at Gallaudet University .

Katharine Ryan Gibbs (1863-1934)

Women’s Employment Pioneer Katharine Ryan Gibbs founded Katharine Gibbs School in 1911 to provide women with highlevel secretarial training and the opportunity to earn their own incomes.

Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914-present)

Pharmacologist and Public Health Activist Frances Oldham Kelsey as the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) pharmacologist refused to approve thalidomide, a drug that was later proved to cause severe birth defects.

Roxcy O'Neal Bolton (1926-present)

20th Century Women’s Rights Pioneer Roxcy O’Neal Bolton is alifelong advocate for women’s rights. Founder of Florida’s first battered women’s shelter and the nation’s first hospital-based Rape Treatment Center. Bolton led the effort to create the Women’s Park in Miami.

Arden Eversmeyer (1931-present)

The Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project Founder Arden Eversmeyer founded the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project (1999), to ensure that the stories of lesbians born in the first part of the 20th century are recorded in history.

Carmen Delgado Votaw (1935-present)

International Women’s Rights Activist Carmen Delgado Votaw is a leading advocate for women’s rights both nationally and internationally. She wrote “Puerto Rican Women,” a bilingual women’s history book.

Ann Lewis (1937-present)

Women’s Rights Organizer and Women’s History Advocate Ann Lewis is a leader of progressive political reform focusing on the importance of personal engagement, social justice and women’s rights who served as a White House Communications Director.

Jaida Im (1961-present)

Advocate for Survivors of Human Trafficking Jaida Im founded Freedom House, the first residential shelter for adult female survivors of human trafficking, in Northern California in 2010.

Tammy Duckworth (1968-present)

Member of Congress and Iraq War Veteran Tammy Duckworth, U.S. Representative from Illinois, is an Iraq War veteran and former Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs. In 2014, she became the first disabled woman elected to serve in the House of Representatives.

Lisa Taylor (1974-present)

Civil Rights Attorney Lisa Taylor is a leading civil rights trial attorney who works
to ensure that civil rights laws are enforced around the country. She became a lawyer out of a strong desire to serve those who could not serve themselves.