WOMEN AND ADVERSITY: DONNA HARRIS
FOUNDED AMERICANS FOR INDIAN OPPORTUNITY
NOVEMBER: NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
Ladonna Vita Tabbytite’s mother was Lilly Tabbytite, a Native American Comanche, but her father, Donald Crawford, was not Native American. In an interview in 2018, Harris stated that her father left Oklahoma shortly after her birth to find work in California, but he never returned to them. Ladonna was raised by her maternal grandparents in an Indigenous community ...
WOMEN AND ADVERSITY:
MARÍA CORINA MACHADO PARISCA
VENEZUELAN POLITICAL ACTIVIST
AWARDED NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2025
María Corina Machado Parisca has demonstrated the determination, tenacity ...
WOMEN AND ADVERSITY
ELINOR “LIN” AWAN OSTROM
2009
FIRST WOMAN TO WIN A NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES
Elinor “Lin” Awan Ostrom was of the era when wo ...