Biographies

Maggie Lena Walker was one of the foremost female business leaders in the US and the first woman to own a bank.

Mary Edwards Walker is the only US woman to receive the Presidential Medal of Honor.

Madam C.J. Walker was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist. She rose from poverty in the South to become one of the wealthiest African American women of her time.

Mercy Otis Warren was a published poet, political playwright and satirist during the age of the American Revolution.

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the first First Lady of the United States.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, suffragist, activist, and researcher.

We’wha, a Lhamana (Zuni Two Spirit) individual, took on both male & female tasks as a Zuni cultural ambassador and pottery and textile artist. Also a spiritual leader, We’wha endeavored to preserve the history, traditions, & knowledge of the Zuni people.

Despite spending much of her life enslaved, Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poems.

Alice Wong is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community that fosters and amplifies disability media and culture.

Appearing in over sixty movies throughout her career, Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood.

Most known for her work on the top-secret Manhattan Project during World War II and her Cobalt-60 experiment that contested the law of conservation of parity, Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu’s pioneering work is regarded as a standard among physicists today.

At age eleven, Malala Yousafzai was already advocating for the rights of women and girls.

One of America’s foremost female athletes, Mildred "Babe” Didrikson Zaharias broke world records in multiple sports and cofounded of the LPGA.