Leaders
A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law, this first lady created the administration-wide "Let's Move" initiative to help combat the United State's childhood obesity epidemic.
Who is Michelle Obama?
She was the second female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed in 1993. She was Columbia University's first female tenured professor and served as the director of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union during the 1970s. She is known for fighting for gender equality, such as in United States v. Virginia.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsberg?
This American politician was born on December 9, 1973. She served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017. She founded the Fair Fight Action, an organization to address voter suppression. She currently serves on the board of directors for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.
Who is Stacey Abrams?
This 18 year old Swedish environmental activist became internationally known when she gave a speech at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit. The line "How dare you" went viral and earned her success. She was included in the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
This Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician was famous throughout Egypt and Rome in the 390s and is believed to have invented the silver plane astrolabe. She was murdered in 415 AD by a Christian Mob after rumors spread that she gave spotty advice to a Roman prefect of Alexandria.
Who is Hypatia of Alexandria?
The Empress of Russia ruled the land from 1762 until 1796 and is the country's longest-ruling female leader. She wrote numerous books, pamphlets, and educational materials aimed at improving Russia's education system.
Who is Catherine the Great?
She is the first Hispanic and Latina member of the Supreme Court. She has contributed to notable court cases, such as J.B.D vs North Carolina and United States v Alvarez.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
The American politician was born in Oakland, California in 1964. She served as a United States senator from California from 2017 to 2021, and the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017. she earned the position as Vice President after defeating the incumbent president Donald Trump, and Vice President Mike Pence.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This environmental activist was born in 1959 in Los Angeles California. In 1985 she help found the Indigenous Women's Network and worked with Women of All Red Nations to publicize American forced sterilization of Native American women. She is the executive director and co-founder, alongside the Indigo Girls, of Honor the Earth, an environmental organization for Natives, that had an active role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
Who is Winona LaDuke?
While she would not describe herself as a "philosopher", This French writer had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. In her 1943 novel "She Came to Stay", she uses a tale of torrid love affairs to explore many existentialist concepts such as freedom, angst, and "the other".
Who is Simone de Beauvoir?
She was the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, increasing healthcare access and establishing education programs in her position. She has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is Wilma Mankiller?
This American politician has served as the U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 1991. Considered by many to be one of the most powerful women in American politics today, she has never shied away from "reclaiming her time".
Who is Maxine Waters?
This activist was born in 1997 and is famous for being an advocate for education. She was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 but miraculously survived. She became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
This person is the first female president elected in Africa. Her career started in 1972. In 2006, she won the presidential election and was reelected in 2011. She also received a Nobel Peace Prize the same year.
Who is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf?
This politician is commonly known by her initials AOC, and is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th congressional district since 2019. She took office at age 29 and is the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress.
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
This woman was a well-known African-American activist and educator. In 1920 she rode a bicycle door-to-door raising money to pay the poll tax in Daytona, Florida for 100 women voters. She also taught women how to pass their literacy tests, which was required to vote.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
At the1At the 1988 Democratic Convention, this former governor from Texas dazzled the crowd with her rousing keynote speech. Remarking on the fact that she and Barbara Jordan were the only women to give the keynote in 160 years, she stated “If you give us a chance, we can perform. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
Who is Ann Richards?
In 1884, this writer and civil rights activist filed a lawsuit against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company, after a conductor and two train workers forcibly removed her from a seat that she refused to vacate for a white passenger. Later she served as one of the founding members of the NAACP, only two of which were women, in 1909.
Who is Ida Wells?