Lucy Goode Brooks
Having experienced as a slave the devastation of separated families, Lucy Goode Brooks founded the Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans.
Frances Culpeper Stephens Berkley Ludwell
As a leader of the Green Spring faction, Frances Culpeper Stephens Berkeley Ludwell influenced the politics of seventeenth-century Virginia.
Edith Turner (Wané Roonseraw)
Edith Turner, chief of the Nottoway, successfully navigated nineteenth-century Nottoway and Anglo-American societies while she strove to keep the…
Isabel Wood Rogers
As an educator and author, Isabel Wood Rogers advocated that Christians take an active and responsible interest in the secular world.
Providencia Velazquez Gonzalez
By striving to improve the lives of those around her, Providencia "Provi" Velazquez Gonzalez serves as an example to her community.
Sharyn McCrumb
The award-winning novels of Sharyn Elaine Arwood McCrumb celebrate the richness and variety of Appalachian culture.
Elizabeth Bermingham Lacy
The first woman to serve on the State Corporation Commission and on the Supreme Court of Virginia, Elizabeth Bermingham Lacy opened doors for Virginia…
Patricia Buckley Moss
Patricia Buckley Moss uses the considerable commercial success she has earned as an artist to aid child-related charities and promote the use of the…