Activists
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 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 Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.
Who is Stacey Abrams?
This feminist luminary published her first book “Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women in Feminism” in 1981. These days, she teaches in her home state of Kentucky at Berea College, a liberal arts college that does not charge tuition to any of its students.
Who is Dr. Gloria Watkins aka Bell Hooks?
This English primatologist and anthropologist is known for her expertise on chimpanzees. She is best known for her 60 year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960.
Who is Jane Goodall?
With the mutant power to control the wind and rain, this part-time leader of the X-Men and former queen of Wakanda was crowned Comic Vine’s Superhero of the Year in 2011.
Who is Ororo Munroe, aka Storm?
This environmental activist was born in 1959 in Los Angeles California. In 1985 she helped 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?
This 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 tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University has published notable books, including White Teeth, originally published prior to completion in 1997, Swing Time, published in November 2016, and Grand Union, published in October 2019. She is also a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Who is Zadie Smith?
This American physician, nurse, and author became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States in 1864. In 1883, she published A Book of Medical Discourses.
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
This character was initially a waitress at two different restaurants, in which she worked for in order to fulfill her dream to own her own restaurant. She attends her childhood friend’s party as a caterer selling beignets, where she gets dragged into a magical situation by a self-centered prince, and turns into a small animal. She eventually falls in love with the prince, and becomes the Princess of Maldonia, as well as fulfilling her lifelong dream of opening her restaurant in New Orleans.
Who is Princess Tiana?
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 in 2014.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
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 professor was born in 1938 and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley in short fiction. She also taught at Princeton University from 1978-2014, and has written a number of books, including Black Water, Blonde, and The Wheel of Love.
Who is Joyce Carol Oates?
This Polish-French physicist and chemist conducted the pioneering research on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
She is the princess and Imperial Senator of Alderaan, and later becomes part of the Rebel Alliance. She travelled across the universe in her efforts to defeat Darth Vader and is notable for killing Jabba the Hutt. Never stopping to defeat evil, she becomes the founder and General of the Resistance against the First Order.
Who is Princess Leia Organa?
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?
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 American chemist developed the “Ball Method”, which was the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. She was the first African American and first woman to receive a master’s degree from the University of Hawaii. She was also the University’s first female and African American chemistry professor.
Who is Alice Ball?
This African American entrepreneur made her fortune by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for black women. She was recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
This character is the main protagonist and the narrator of The Hunger Games trilogy. She takes her younger sister’s place in the 74th Hunger Games by stating that she “volunteers as tribute” in order to save her sister’s life. She becomes a huge symbol for revolution and the eradication of President Snow.
Who is Katniss Everdeen?
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?
This American politician was born in 1924 in Brooklyn and worked in early childhood education before becoming involved in local democratic party politics in the 1950s. She was the Secretary of the House Democratic Caucus from 1977 to 1981.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
While she would not describe herself as a “philosopher”, This French writter 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?
This American engineer and former director of the Johnson Space Center is also a concert flautist. In 1993, when she became the first Hispanic woman to go to space, she brought a flute with her aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Who is Ellen Ochoa?
This character was an intellectual recurring character in the show Daria. She is one of the few kids outside of Jane who gets Daria's humor, and is also equally sarcastic. She is mature and has high standards for herself.
Who is Jodie Landon?