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Clara Chan Lee
Clara Chan Lee


Clara Chan Lee was a Chinese-American suffragist, women’s rights activist, and community leader. Born on October 21, 1886, in Portland, Oregon, to the Rev. Chan Hon Fun and Ow Muck Gay, both Chinese immigrants, Clara moved to Oakland, California, with her parents in the early twentieth century. She eventually married Charles Goodall Lee, the first licensed Chinese-American dentist in the United States. After California passed woman suffrage in 1911, Lee, along with Emma Tom Leung, became the first Chinese-American woman to register to vote that same year. Tye Leung Schulze […]
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee


Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee was a Chinese-American suffragist, economist and community leader. Born in Guangzhou, China, in 1896, Lee immigrated to the U.S. on an academic scholarship at the age of 9. Starting in her teens, Lee became an active figure in the New York suffrage movement. In 1912, Lee, on horseback, helped lead a suffrage parade of 10,000 people, for which she was written about by both the New York Tribune and New York Times. The same year, Lee entered Barnard College, joined the Chinese Students’ Association, and wrote […]
Monica Lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky


Monica Lewinsky is an anti-cyberbullying activist, public speaker, and writer. Lewinsky was born on July 23, 1973, in San Francisco, California. She earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Lewis & Clark College in 1995 and a master's degree in psychology from the London School of Economics in 2027. Lewinsky became internationally known after U.S. President Bill Clinton admitted to having had sexual encounters with her while she was a White House intern in the mid-1990s. The affair led to President Clinton's 1998 impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives […]
Belva Lockwood
Belva Lockwood


Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood was an American attorney, politician, educator, suffragist and author. One of the first female lawyers in the United States, Lockwood successfully petitioned Congress in 1879 to be allowed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the first woman attorney with this privilege. She ran for president in 1884 and 1888 as the nominee for the Equal Rights Party and was the first woman to appear on official ballots. Lockwood was born October 24, 1830, in Royalton, New York. In 1848, she married Uriah McNall, their […]
Carrie Lukas
Carrie Lukas


Carrie Lukas is president of the non-profit organization Independent Women's Forum (IWF). She has also been a senior fellow at the Goldwater Institute, a contributor to National Review Online, and a columnist for Forbes.com. Lukas earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and her master's degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She worked at the Cato Institute as a social security analyst. Lukas has written several studies for the Cato Institute on social security and education policies. Her op-ed pieces have […]
Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai


Wangari Muta Maathai was a Kenyan environmental political activist who was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, in 2004. She founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation and women's rights. Maathai was born April 1, 1940, in the village of Ihithe, Nyeri District, in Kenya. Her family was Kikuyu, the most populous ethnic group in Kenya. She was one of some 300 Kenyans selected to study in the United States in 1960 through a program funded […]
Mairead Maguire
Mairead Maguire


Mairead Maguire is a peace activist from Northern Ireland and a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize with Betty Williams in 1976 for their work as co-founders of the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution to violence in Northern Ireland. Maguire was born on January 27, 1944, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She attended a private Catholic school until the age of 14, after which her family could not afford the tuition. After working as a babysitter, she […]
Theresa Serber Malkiel
Theresa Serber Malkiel


Theresa Serber Malkiel was an influential Jewish labor activist and suffragist in the early twentieth century. Born on May 1, 1874 in the town of Bar, Theresa Serber escaped anti-Semitic persecution in Russia to seek refuge in the United States with her family in 1891. Though she had been part of a Jewish middle class in Russia and was fairly well-educated, Serber was forced to work in sweatshops in New York City. Serber discovered her interest in workers’ rights quickly and joined the Russian Workingmen’s Club. After finding work in […]
Tamika Mallory
Tamika Mallory


Tamika Mallory is an activist and advocate of gun control, feminism and the Black Lives Matter movement. She was a co-founder of the Women's March on Washington and a national co-chair until July 2019. Mallory was born on September 4, 1980, in The Bronx, New York. Her parents, Stanley and Voncile Mallory, were founding members of Al Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN), a leading U.S. civil rights organization. Mallory joined NAN at age 11 and was a staff member by age 15. She became the youngest executive director at NAN, […]
Wilma Mankiller
Wilma Mankiller


Wilma Pearl Mankiller was the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, serving as principal chief from 1985 to 1995. She is the author of a national-bestselling autobiography, "Mankiller: A Chief and Her People," and co-author of "Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women." Mankiller was born November 18, 1945, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Her father was full-blooded Cherokee and her mother was Caucasian of Dutch and Irish descent. She spent her early childhood on a 160-acre tract known as Mankiller Flats near Rocky Mountain, Oklahoma, given […]