Prima Ballerina – Lisa Macuja Elizalde in full costume as the White Swan for her Swan Song Series back in 2013. Image from Ballet Manila. Lisa Teresita Pacheco Macuja-Elizalde was born on October 3, 1964 and is a Filipino prima ballerina. In 1984, she broke barriers...
Sadako at the hospital. Copyright: Sadako Legacy NPO Born in 1943, Sadako Sasaki was just two years old when the American pilot Paul Tibbet flew his B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, over Hiroshima, Japan. On August 6, 1945, by order of then President Harry S. Truman, Paul...
Nina Layard on site at an archaeological excavation. Nina Layard isn’t a household name, but she definitely should be. The way that she pushed the boundaries in male-dominated fields was hugely significant and inspiring for young women looking for role models in...
Rigoberta Menchú Tum Rigoberta was born in Laj Chimel, Guatemala on January 9, 1959 into a poor Indigenous family of K’iche’ Maya descent who earned their living by picking coffee beans on big plantations. In 1960, when Rigoberta was just a year old, civil...
Wangari Maathai Wangari was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940. Growing up, she experienced first hand the effects of deforestation in her home town of Nyeri. As a little girl, Wangari would go on foot to fetch water from a nearby stream to provide fresh drinking water for...
Human rights activist Miriam Miranda Miriam was born into a small community in Santa Fe, Colón, a small Garifuna village located on the north coast of Honduras. Like many others in Garifuna, Miriam and her family moved around the country to find work and education....
