Tag: NYC Women

A lawyer and the first woman to be admitted to the Connecticut Bar Association. The co-founder and director of the Culinary Institute of America.
Category: Business & Entrepreneurship, Culinary, Law.

Suffragist, social reformer, and labor lawyer.
Category: Law, Activism & Feminism, Politics & Leaders.

A pioneer female rapper who accomplished many firsts, and the co-founder of Hip Hop Sisters Foundation.
Category: Music.

Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, and feminist activist. The founder of the V-Day movement, best known as the writer of the play The Vagina Monologues.
Category: Literature & Poetry, Theater & Cinema, Activism & Feminism.

A feminist leader, activist, and writer. The co-founder and the first president of the National Organization for Women.
Category: Academy & Education, Activism & Feminism.

The first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, known as “The first woman of finance.”
Category: Economics & Finance, Business & Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy.

A feminist leader, journalist, editor, social-political activist, and a spokeswoman for the American Feminist Movement.
Category: Media, Activism & Feminism.

An Italian-American Roman Catholic nun, the founder of the female religious congregation Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the first US citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
Category: Religion & Ethnic Culture.

Physician, educator, and advocate for women and children's right to healthcare. The first Latina to be appointed as the chief of the American Public Health Association.
Category: Health, Academy & Education, Activism & Feminism.

Transgender and gay rights activist, one of the leading figures in the Stonewall Riots of 1969, when the NYC gay community fought for equal rights.
Category: Activism & Feminism.