Julia Chase-Brand, Breaking Down Barriers for Women Athletes
She entered a distance race women were forbidden to run, challenging restrictions that kept female athletes off the starting line and out of serious competition.
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Danika is a writer and musician from the northwest who sometimes takes a 30 minute break from feminism to enjoy a tv show. You can follow her on twitter @sadwhitegrrl.
Danika Kimball
Danika is a writer and musician from the northwest who sometimes takes a 30 minute break from feminism to enjoy a tv show. You can follow her on twitter @sadwhitegrrl.
Clara Barton, Humanitarian and Founder of the American Red Cross
She brought care to wartime battlefields, then built a relief organization that extended its work to communities facing floods, famine, epidemics, and other disasters.
Melanie Klein, the Founding Mother of Children’s Psychology
She took children’s inner lives seriously, developing theories that challenged her peers and helped reshape psychoanalysis despite her unconventional path into the profession.
Margaret Hamilton, the Woman Behind the Moon Landing
Her team’s software kept an overloaded spacecraft computer focused on landing, helping protect a historic mission and establish new standards for reliable software engineering.