Florence Bascom was a barrier-breaking geologist who contributed to the field through her research and teaching.

Kelly Clark is a five-time Olympian, Olympic gold medalist, and X Games legend, who championed equality in winter sports through launching the Kelly Clark Foundation.

Andrea Ghez is one of the world’s leading experts in observational astrophysics and was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for her discovery of a supermassive black hole in the Milky Way’s center. She is also a fierce advocate for women in STEM.

Yalow built her career as a physicist in mid-20th-century America, a time when women faced systemic barriers in science, and became the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Dr. Virginia Apgar persevered beyond early 20th-century barriers to women in medicine to become a leading anesthesiologist and the first female full professor at Columbia University.

Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig was a pioneering American cardiologist best known for developing the first successful open-heart surgery to treat "blue baby syndrome."

Anna Julia Cooper was a groundbreaking educator, activist, and author who changed the trajectories of many young Black women .

Lucy Diggs Slowe was an educator and administrator who paved the way for many African American women in education.

Susan G. Komen's name became synonymous with breast cancer awareness throughout the 90s and early 2000s, but who was Susan G. Komen?

Gerda Lerner, the “godmother of women’s history,” fled Nazi-occupied Austria and became an accomplished historian and advocate for female scholars.

Bernice Johnson Reagon is a renowned composer, historian, musician, and activist.

Loretta Ross is an academic and activist who has dedicated many years to advocating for women’s rights and reproductive justice.

As a teenager, Barbara Johns helped organize a strike that eventually led to the desegregation of schools in the United States.

Famously referred to as “the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time,” author, activist, and lecturer Matilda Joslyn Gage fought for abolition, women’s rights, and Native American rights.

Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark was a pathbreaking psychologist whose research helped desegregate schools in the United States.

Once called America's only Coal Queen, Sarah B. Cochran was a coal industry leader and philanthropist in an era when American women could not universally vote or serve on juries.

As an artist and world traveler who never married or had children, Alma Woodsey Thomas circumvented society’s expectations for Black women born in the 19th century.

A dedicated public health advocate, Antonia Novello made history as the first female and first Hispanic U.S. Surgeon General in 1990.