- Musimbi Kanyoro
Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, became the first woman from a developing country to head the World YWCA when she appointed as Secretary General (CEO) in 1998. (www.worldywca.org) The World YWCA celebrated its 150-year anniversary in 2005 and is the one of the largest and oldest women’s voluntary membership movements that reaches over 25 million women and girls through its member associations in 125 countries. Serving on numerous international boards, Dr. - Patricia Ireland
Patricia Ireland (born October 19, 1945 in Oak Park, Illinois) is a U.S. administrator and feminist. She served as president of the National Organization for Women, from 1991 to 2001 and published an autobiography, "What Women Want", in 1996. Ireland obtained a Bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee in 1966 and a law degree from the University of Miami School of Law in 1975. Before becoming an attorney, Ireland worked as a flight attendant. - Dorothy Height
Dorothy Irene Height (born March 24, 1912) is an African American administrator, educator, and social activist. Irene Height is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. Height was born in Richmond, Virginia. At an early age, she moved with her family to Rankin, Pennsylvania. While in high school, Height was awarded a scholarship to Barnard College for her oratory skills but upon arrival was denied entrance. - Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (b. April 2, 1947, Birmingham, Alabama) is a country, folk and alternative music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous big-name artists. - Michele Landsberg
Michele Landsberg, OC, is an award-winning Canadian writer, social activist and feminist who wrote a major column for the "Toronto Star" newspaper. Born in 1935, she grew up in Toronto, acquiring values and grammar from her strict immigrant mother. After graduating with a bachelors degree in English from the University of Toronto in 1962, she worked for "The Globe and Mail", raised her family, freelanced, … - Jim Marshall
Jim Marshall (born December 30, 1937 Danville, Kentucky) played college football at Ohio State University. He left school before his senior year, and played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. He was then drafted in the 4th round of the 1960 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns. Marshall played the 1960 season with the Browns. He played from 1961 to 1979 with the Minnesota Vikings. - Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Charlotte Hawkins Brown (June 11 1883 - January 11 1961) was an American author and educator. Born Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins in Henderson, North Carolina, in the late 1880s her family moved north to settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An exceptional student in a very white world, during her senior year of high school, Alice Freeman Palmer, a former Wellesley College president, … - Susan Eng
Susan Eng, LL.B. (伍素屏, born 1952) is a Toronto tax lawyer and former chair of the Metro Toronto Police Services Board from 1991 to 1995. Eng, the daughter of immigrants from China, studied at Jarvis Collegiate Institute and received a Bachelor of Laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1975. She was called to Ontario Bar in 1977. In 1984 Eng was a candidate in the Ward 6 by-election to fill John Sewell's vacated seat on Toronto City Council. - Alice Jamieson
Alice Jamieson was a leading Calgary, Alberta feminist and magistrate. Jamieson arrived in Calgary in 1903 when her husband, Reuben Rupert Jamieson, became the area general superintendent for the Canadian Pacific Railway. They prospered in Calgary and after his retirement, he became the 19th mayor of Calgary. After the death of Jamieson's husband,/// Alice continued to be active in the community. - Maureen Forrester
Maureen Forrester CC (born July 25, 1930) is a Canadian operatic contralto. She was born Kathleen Stewart in Montreal, Quebec as one of four children. She grew up in a poor section of east Montreal. At age 13, she dropped out of school to help support the family, working as a secretary at Bell Telephone. She was able to pay for voice lessons with Sally Martin, Frank Rowe, and baritone Bernard Diamant. She gave her debut recital at the local YWCA in 1953. - Lugenia Burns Hope
Lugenia Burns Hope, née Burns (Feb 19, 1871, St. Louis, Missouri – Aug 14, 1947, Nashville, Tennessee) was a social reformer whose Neighborhood Union and other community service organizations improved the quality of life for blacks in Atlanta, Georgia, and served as a model for the future Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her youth, Lugenia Hope worked for various charitable organizations, inspiring a life-long interest in social outreach work. - Elizabeth Ball
Elizabeth Ball is a Vancouver city councillor who was elected as a member of Non-Partisan Association in 2005. She was the founder of Carousel Theatre Company and served as Managing Artistic Director for 27 years. - Sue Richards
Sue Richards is a Canadian artist and social entrepreneur living in Guelph, Ontario. Sue moved to Guelph in 1981 to attend the University of Guelph. In 2002 she launched the "Breast of Canada" calendar in support of breast health and breast cancer prevention. Following graduation and prior to starting the calendar, Richards helped grow the Hillside Festival during its first decade. - Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle (born Ethel Hedgeman, February 10, 1885 - November 28, 1950) was an African-American founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA). - Ellen Woodsworth
Ellen Woodsworth is a former Vancouver City Councillor and first elected in 2002 as a member of Coalition of Progressive Electors. Born in Toronto, Woodsworth went to high school in Japan before returning to Canada to complete her BA at the University of British Columbia. Later her political work took her back to Toronto. She also operated a travelling women's bookmobile and founded a women's newspaper "The Other Woman" in Toronto, Ontario. - Lynn Cullen
Lynn Cullen is a radio show host in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is currently on WPTT 1360, with the first hour of her broadcast taped for later showing on the Pittsburgh Cable News Channel (PCNC). Cullen is noted as one of the few liberals on mainstream radio. Cullen's reporting for WTAE-TV from 1981 to 1992 garnered her numerous awards, including a 1991 Emmy award, four Golden Quills for Journalistic Excellence from the Pittsburgh Press Club, … - Steven C. Rockefeller Jr.
Steven C. Rockefeller, Jr. is the only son of Steven C. Rockefeller and grandson of former United States Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and a fifth generation member of the Rockefeller family. He is President of Educational Adventures, which creates family friendly entertainment to empower children to make better safety related decisions. - Crystal Plamondon
Crystal Plamondon, often known as "Canada's Cajun Queen", is a franco-Albertan singer, songwriter, and percussionist. She was born in Plamondon, Alberta, a village founded by her great grandfather in 1908. She has earned a number of awards, including the Molson Canadian ARIA (Alberta Recording Industry Association) Performer of the Year Award, and the YWCA Tribute to Women Award for Arts & Culture. - Jovita Moore
Jovita Moore News Anchor And Reporter Jovita Moore anchors the daily newscast of Channel 2 Action News from 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Jovita joined WSB-TV in 1998. Before moving to Atlanta, Jovita worked as weekend anchor/reporter at WMC-TV in Memphis, Tenn. Jovita began her career as a reporter at KFSM-TV in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1990. Jovita is a native New Yorker. - Evelyn Hart
Evelyn Anne Hart, CC., OM FRSC (born April 4, 1956) is a Canadian ballerina and former principal dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she studied dancing at the Dorothy Carter School of Dance in London, Ontario, the National Ballet School and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. She joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 1976, was promoted to soloist in 1978 and principal dancer in 1979, only three years after she joined. - Abby Rockefeller Mauzé
Abigail "Abby" Rockefeller Mauzé ("Babs") was the first child and only daughter of John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. and Abigail "Abby" Greene Aldrich Rockefeller. She and her five brothers carried on the Rockefeller family tradition of philanthropy stemming back to her grandfather, John Davison Rockefeller, Sr., founder of Standard Oil. Unlike her famous brothers, she always remained out of the public eye. - Doris Mae Oulton
Doris Mae Oulton was born in Barrhead, Alberta on May 23 1945. One of three daughters, she left home early after high school. Little is known about the troubled years after Oulton first set out, but her later activities are well-documented. She revolutionized telecommunications across the Canadian North, helping people build broadcast skills in dozens of communities. She also established the Manitoba Women's Directorate to fight sexism across the Canadian prairies. - Sue Bailey Thurman
Sue Bailey Thurman (1904-1996) was an American black author, lecturer, and historian. She was also the wife of noted theologian Howard Thurman. Thurman was the youngest of ten children born to educators, the Reverend Isaac Bailey and Susie (Ford) Bailey of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She graduated from Spelman College in 1920 and earned bachelor's degrees in music and liberal arts from Oberlin College in 1926. - Juliette Derricotte
Juliette Derricotte was born April 1, 1897 in Athens, Georgia. She was born to Isaac Derricotte and Laura Derricotte, a cobbler and a seamstress. The fifth of nine children she grew up in a household that was both supportive as well as caring. As a child she was hopeful of attending the local Institute and was crushed when her mother told her she would be unable to due to her color. - Carolyn Egan
Carolyn Egan is a trade unionist, feminist and political activist. An American by birth, Egan moved to Canada during the Vietnam War with her partner who was a draft resister, and settled in Toronto. In the 1970s Egan was a member of the Toronto Women's Liberation Movement. Egan is best known for her work in the pro-choice movement in the 1980s working with Judy Rebick in the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics she was often seen at the side of Dr. - Anna Arnold Hedgeman
Anna Arnold Hedgeman an African American civil rights leader, politician, educator, and writer. Anna Arnold was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, to William James Arnold II and Marie Ellen (Parker) Arnold. She moved with her family to Anoka, Minnesota when she was very young. The Methodist church and the school were vital parts of the Arnold family’s life. Her father created an encouraging environment that stressed education and a strong work ethic. - Agnes Inglis
Agnes Inglis (1870-1952) was a Detroit, Michigan-born anarchist who became the primary architect of the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan. She was the youngest child in a conservative, religious family, and educated at a Massachusetts girls' academy. Her father died in 1874, her sister died of cancer sometime later, and her mother died when she was roughly thirty years old. - Davila Toganivalu
Adi Asilina Davila Toganivalu is a Fijian academic and businesswoman. It was announced on 7 January 2006 that Toganivalu had been appointed to the board of the Fiji Times Ltd., the first woman to hold such a position. The appointment, which is for three years, was approved by News Limited in Sydney, Australia, the parent company of the Fiji Times. She was chosen to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, … - Annabelle Rankin
Dame Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin, DBE (July 28 1908 - August 30 1986) was the second woman member of the Australian Senate, the first woman from Queensland to sit in the Parliament of Australia, the first woman to have a federal portfolio and the first woman to be appointed head of a foreign mission. Annabelle Rankin came from a political family in Queensland; her father Colin Dunlop Wilson Rankin was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. - Zernona Black
ZerNona Stewart Black (1906-2005) was the wife of civil rights leader and pastor Rev Claude Black. She was the cousin of Carter G. Woodson. She taught Communications, Drama, Speech, Radio, and Physical Education at Langston University in Oklahoma, St. Phillips College in San Antonio. In 1943, she accepted a three-month transfer to the San Antonio YWCA-USO for Black Military, a group formed to help morale for African American service members and their families. - Margaret McIntyre
Margaret Edgeworth David McIntyre OBE was the first woman elected to the Parliament of Tasmania (Australia), representing the seat of Cornwall in the Legislative Council. Margaret was born in Sydney, her parents, Sir Tannatt Edgeworth David, a geologist and Antarctic explorer and Caroline Martha David a teacher, had moved to Australia in 1882. She was encouraged to become educated and studied for a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1907. - Pola Uddin Baroness Uddin
Manzila Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin (born 17 July 1959) is a Labour politician, the first Muslim woman in the House of Lords. Uddin was born in Bangladesh and grew up in London. She was educated at the University of North London, where she earned a Diploma in social work. She has worked as a Youth and Community worker with the YWCA, Liaison Officer for Tower Hamlets Social Services, and Manager of Tower Hamlets Women's Health Project. - Carol Semple-Marzetta
Carol Semple-Marzetta (b. February 23, 1966) is a fitness instructor and competitor. In regional and national competitions, she has won 13 medals. - Irene Osgood Andrews
Irene Osgood, Mrs. John Andrews (b. January 18 1879, Big Rapids, Michigan - d. 19??) was an American writer on problems of women in industry. She was born in Big Rapids, Michigan and educated at the School of Philanthropy in New York and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She began her career as agent for the Associated Charities at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, in 1906 was appointed special agent for relief work in the American Red Cross in San Francisco, … - Linda Chapa Lavia
Linda Chapa LaVia is a member of the Illinois House of Representatives representing a part of Kane County including the city of Aurora. A Democrat, she was elected to the Illinois General Assembly in 2002 defeating incumbent Bob O'Conner, becoming to first Hispanic to win a seat in the state legislature outside of Cook County. The daughter of Texas cotton pickers, Linda attended the University of Illinois and enrolled in the R.O.T.C. program, … - Terry Anzur
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Eva Pakyam Manager, Employment Programs, LEAP & Skills Development Centre, YWCA of Greater Toronto Since 1983 in Pakistan and after immigrating to Canada in 1991, Eva Pakyam has been very involved with women and community development work. Currently, she manages a one stop multi-service employment program for women called the YWCA LEAP Program which has pioneered and continues to design programs for working with women on their route to socio economic independence. - Heidi B. Jark
Heidi B. Jark is vice president and manager of the foundation office at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is responsible for overseeing the administration and investment management of corporate and family foundations. For the past five years, she was Fifth Third's planned giving manager, overseeing the day-to-day administration and investment of planned gifts. - Pamela Hawley
Pamela Hawley is the founder and CEO of UniversalGiving, a non-profit using a web-based marketplace to connect individuals to the best performing projects to donate to or volunteer with, all over the world. Pamela has expertise in the areas of entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility. She also has a passion for international volunteering, and has traveled to many countries to volunteer. Pamela was also a cofounder of VolunteerMatch. - Deborah A. Elam
Deborah A. Elam Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer, General Electric - Fairfield, CT Deborah Elam is the Chief Diversity Officer at General Electric, Fairfield, CT. She leads efforts globally to ensure that all GE employees feel they have an opportunity to contribute and succeed. Deborah is a native of New Orleans, LA and an alumna of Ursuline Academy.
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