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Giorgia Meloni
Giorgia Meloni


Giorgia Meloni is the current Prime Minister of Italy. She is the first woman to hold the position. She was first elected to the position on October 22, 2022. Meloni was born in Rome, Italy on January 15, 1977. She grew up in Rome. In 1992, she joined the Youth Front, a wing of the Italian Social Movement, a known neo-fascist political party. She founded the student organization Gli Antenati, "The Ancestors", which protested public education reform. In 1996, she became the leader of the Student Action, a student movement […]
Christabel Pankhurst
Christabel Pankhurst


Christabel Pankhurst was born September 22, 1880 in Manchester, England. She was the daughter of a major leader in the suffrage movement, Emmeline Pankhurst and her husband, Richard Pankhurst. She attended the Manchester High School for Girls. Following that education, she obtained a law degree from the University of Manchester, despite not being allowed to practice law, as she was a woman. She was a co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union. She was a major force in the militant action of the organization. Many of the events of […]
Lucy Burns
Lucy Burns


Lucy Burns was born in Brooklyn, New York City on July 28, 1879. She attended the Packer Collegiate Institute. After attending Packer Collegiate Institute, she was educated at Columbia University, Vassar College, and Yale University. After her education, she became a high school English teacher in Brooklyn. Following being an English teacher, she moved to Europe. In Germany, she continued her education, studying at University of Bonn and Berlin. She then moved to the UK, where she studied at Oxford University. During her education in the United Kingdom, she met […]
Gloria Richardson
Gloria Richardson


Gloria Richardson was a civil rights activist and leader of the Cambridge Movement in Cambridge, Maryland. Richardson was born on May 6, 1922, in Baltimore, Maryland. Richardson's family were influential and affluent members in the state of Maryland. She earned her B.A. in sociology from Howard University. At Howard University, she was involved in political and social activism. Following her university experience, she began her career in civil rights. She was the co-chair of the Cambridge Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. While co-chair, she found goals outside of desegregation to work towards, […]
Portia Simpson Miller
Portia Simpson Miller


Portia Simpson Miller served as prime minister of Jamaica from March 2006 to September 2007 and again from January 2012 to March 2016, the first female prime minister of that country. Simpson Miller was born Dec. 12, 1945, in Wood Hall, Saint Catherine parish, Jamaica. She earned a bachelor’s degree in public administration from Union Institute & University in 1997. In 1974, Simpson Miller was elected to the city council of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation, and in 1976 she was elected to Jamaica’s House of Representatives. She was […]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author whose works cover such themes as immigration, racism, gender, marriage, motherhood and womanhood. Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria, on Sept. 15, 1977. She studied medicine for a year at the University of Nigeria, but left for the United States at age 19 after getting a scholarship to study communication at Drexel University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and political science from Eastern Connecticut State University and master’s degrees in creative writing and in African history from Johns Hopkins University and […]
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin


Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an influential American author whose works explored such themes as race, gender, sexuality, coming of age, and political structures. Le Guin was born on Oct. 21, 1929, in Berkeley, California. She earned a B.A. Radcliffe College and an M.A. from Columbia University. She began work toward a Ph.D. in French and Italian Renaissance literature but stopped after marrying in 1953. She began writing in the late 1950s and continued for nearly 60 years. Le Guin received numerous awards for her work and was the first […]
Grace Lee Boggs
Grace Lee Boggs


Grace Lee Boggs was a civil rights and labor activist and author. Boggs was born on June 27, 1915 in Providence, Rhode Island. She was born as "Yu Ping 玉平". She attended Barnard College at Columbia University for her B.A. Following her B.A., she pursued her Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College, where she received a doctorate in philosophy. After she graduated, she met and married James Boggs. They both engaged heavily in racial justice efforts. Following her education, she took a job at the University of Chicago in the Philosophy […]
Angela Davis
Angela Davis


Angela Davis is an American political activist, professor, and author. She was member of the Community Party and the Black Panther Party. Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama on January 26, 1944. Davis attended Brandeis University for her undergraduate degree. For her graduate degree, she attended the University of California, San Diego. During her graduate education, she became involved with the Communist Party, through the Che-Lumumba Club, an all-black branch of the party. Following her graduate degree, she was hired to teach at the University of California, Los Angeles. She […]
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman


Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist, social activist, and leader for the Underground Railroad. She lead many enslaved people through networks of antislavery activists and safe houses on the Underground Railroad. Tubman was born into slavery in the state of Maryland. Her date of birth is debated, but it is thought to be 1822, according to historic records. She documented her date of birth as 1825. During the American Civil War, Tubman served as a scout and spy for the Union Army. Following the abolition of slavery, she became involved with […]