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Caroline Gleich
Caroline Gleich


Caroline Gleich was the Democratic nominee in the 2024 election to represent Utah in the U.S. Senate, losing in the general election. Gleich was born on December 31, 1985, in Minnesota before moving to Utah when she was 15 years old. She earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Utah. Gleich’s career background includes professional skiing and she has participated in protests and lobbying in issues of clean air, climate change, cyber harassment, and gender equality. In January 2024, Gleich announced her intention to run for U.S. […]
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman


Emma Goldman was a political anarchist, writer and speaker who advocated for causes such as free speech, birth control, women's equality and worker’s rights. Goldman was born on June 27, 1869, in Kovno, Russia, to a poor Jewish family. Due to her family's poverty, Goldman had to leave school and work. As a teenager, she began studying the ideas of Russian populists and nihilists. In 1885, she emigrated to Rochester, New York, with an older sister to avoid being forced into marriage by her father. Working as a seamstress in […]
X González
X González


X González (born Emma González) is an American activist and advocate for gun control, and a survivor of the February 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. In the days following the shooting, she and other Stoneman Douglas students founded the gun-control advocacy group Never Again MSD. González first drew national attention after a speech she gave at a rally against gun violence, proclaiming "We call B.S." on the lack of action by politicians funded by the NRA. She continued to advocate for gun control after that rally, […]
Jessica González-Rojas
Jessica González-Rojas


Jessica González-Rojas Represents New York State's 34th District in the New York State Assembly. She assumed office on January 1, 2021. González-Rojas earned her bachelor's degree in international relations from Boston University and a master's degree in public administration with a concentration in public and nonprofit management and public policy from NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She has also completed a certificate program in management at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. From 2002 to 2006, González-Rojas served on the New York State Democratic Committee for […]
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall


Jane Goodall was a British primatologist, ethologist, and environmentalist, known for her groundbreaking study of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. Goodall was born on April 3, 1934, in London, England, developing a fascination for animals at a young age. In 1960 she began her research under the guidance of anthropologist Louis Leakey, revolutionizing the understanding of primate behavior by documenting chimpanzees making and using tools—an ability once thought unique to humans. Over the decades, Goodall expanded her work beyond field research to global conservation and advocacy. She […]
Mary Elizabeth “Tipper” Gore
Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore


Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore, an author, photographer and social issues advocate, was second lady of the United States from 1993-2001. She is the wife of Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States. Gore was born on August 19, 1948, in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Arlington, Virginia. She was given the nickname Tipper by her mother. She received her B.A. in psychology in 1970 from Boston University and a master's degree in psychology from Vanderbilt University's George Peabody College, in 1975. She worked part-time as a […]
Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman


Amanda Gorman is an award-winning writer, poet, and activist. She recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 presidential inauguration of Joe Biden. She is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history. Gorman was born on March 7, 1998, in Los Angeles, California. She began writing at a very young age and was encouraged to practice her writing by her mother. In 2020, Gorman graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology. In 2017, Gorman was named the first National Youth Poet Laureate. […]
Charlotte Forten Grimké
Charlotte Forten Grimké


Charlotte Forten Grimké was an African American teacher, author, abolitionist and suffragist. Born on August 17, 1837, to a family of prominent Philadelphia abolitionists, Charlotte Forten Grimké receive an excellent education from tutors as she was barred from attending a segregated school. At the age of 17, she was sent to Salem, Massachusetts, to be educated further at the Higginson Grammar school and then the Salem Normal School, where she enjoyed great success. After graduation, she found a job as a teacher at Eppes Grammar School. It was in Salem […]
Sarah Moore Grimké
Sarah Moore Grimké


Sarah Moore Grimké was a nineteenth-century abolitionist, suffragist and orator. Born on November 26, 1792, to a family of wealthy slaveholders in Charleston, South Carolina, Grimké learned the evils of slavery at an early age. As a child, she tried to teach some of the enslaved people how to read on their plantation until her father discovered and forbade her from continuing. After an 1819 visit to Philadelphia with her father where she met several Quaker abolitionists, Grimké moved there and became a Quaker in 1821. A few years later, […]
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 […]