Gallery
A Display of Historical and Contemporary Champions
Lisa Charles
Author and fitness/health consultant
Edith Windsor
American LGBT rights activist. 1929-2017.
Elizabeth Jean Peratrovic
Civil rights activist for Alaskan indigenous, 1911-1958.
Amanda Gorman
Youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, as well as an award-winning writer and cum laude graduate of Harvard University.
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
January 9, 1908 – 14 April 14, 1986. Social activist, feminist, social theorist. Author of Second Sex, which created a foundation for modern feminism.
Greta Thunburg
Swedish student and climate activist who has raised global awareness of the risks posed by climate change.
Harriet Tubman
Anti-slavery activist, suffragist, and political strategist 1822-1913
Sima Samar
Minister of Women’s Affairs, Afghanistan, social worker, human rights activist
Zhang Nan
The first Chinese woman to medal in an all-around competition at the World Championships (Olympics 2002, through 2006).
Heena Baek
She is an acclaimed picture book author and illustrator from South Korea. She won the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, a huge international award honoring the body of work of children’s book creators.
Mary Ritter
Suffragist and labor rights activist, 1856-1958
Marie Van Brittan Brown
The inventor of the first home security/closed circuit television.