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Women in Trucking (WIT) is a non-profit organization and foundation that tries to increase the number of women driving cargo trucks.  Trucking is when goods are moved from one place to another on a truck. WIT was founded in 2007 by Ellen Voie. WIT focuses on getting women jobs in trucking, helping them fix work problems, and to celebrate all truckers. WIT was recognized by the White House in 2012 and 2013.

History 
WIT was founded in 2007 by Ellen Voie. It focuses on many problems women have if they work in trucking. WIT works on endingharassment of women drivers and making work safer. It works on good lighting at places truck drivers stop to rest. WIT fights for uniforms and truck design that are comfortable for women. WIT publishes research on why it is hard to be a woman trucker.
WIT became a Gold-Level partner with Frito Lay in 2010. WIT was recognized by the White House in 2012 and 2013. WIT also got a Girl Scout Patch in 2014. WIT holds different events to improve the number of women driving trucks on the road. WIT hosted its first conference called “Accelerate,” in 2015. WIT has held that event ever since 2015.
WIT has continued trying to improve the number of women driving trucks on the road. WIT gives awards like the "Distinguished Woman in Logistics Award," the "Driver of the Year" award, and the "Top Workplace for Women in Transportation" award. They hold many different events. WIT holds the “Accelerate” conference, which has many different speakers come and speak about trucking. WIT has different programs like the Driver Ambassador program, which helps give women a say and lets them share their adventures. WIT also has a career center where women can find jobs in trucking. WIT also finds mentors for people who would like one or need one. They publish Redefining the Road magazine.
They publish the WIT Index every year to help understand the number of women working in trucking and if they are treated fairly. In 2022, the WIT Index says that 13.7% of truck drivers are women. More women are leaders in trucking companies. The most women work in human resources jobs for trucking companies. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says the United States needs more women truck drivers.

In March, 2023, Jennifer Hedrick will be the new leader of WIT.
Ellen Voie 
Ellen Voie is the founder and president of Women in Trucking. She founded women in trucking to get more women into trucking. She helped found Truckers Pride Day.  Before starting Women in Trucking, she was the traffic manager for a place that made steel.  Voie has written two books. One book is about marriage and family problems and the other is about what could happen in truck driving training. She was the first person added to the Howes Hall of Fame. Voie was also recognized by the White House in 2012 as a "Transportation Innovator Champion of Change" and invited back in 2013 to celebrate the anniversary of the Equal Pay Act.

Early life 
Voie grew up knowing that there were no jobs just for girls. She took a shop class. She learned how to make things with wood, welding, and shop work even though those were things for boys.  Her mom died in 1979. She got a diploma in Traffic and Transportation Management from the LaSelle Extension University.
Past Career 
Voie was hired at a steel making plant in 1978 in the drafting department. In 1979 she was transferred to the traffic department. She would bring the items needed to make steel to the plants and was in charge of hiring, firing, and managing the truck drivers. 

Voie owned a fleet of trucks. She was also a traffic consultant for many years.

Then she worked for Schneider Inc. Voie recruited people who were not usually truck drivers to become drivers. She tried to get women and non-white people to be truck drivers.

In 2000, Voie became the executive director of Trucker Buddy International Inc. She helped truckers and students write letters to each other and learn more about each other's lives.

Current Career 
Voie founded Women in Trucking when she was completing her pilot's license. She was in a group of female pilots and noticed there wasn’t a group like that for truckers.

Fun facts
Fun facts 

WIT has a plush doll named Clare. They also have a “Mall” where you can buy different things from their website. They have an “I Heart Trucking” photo contest.

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Masuma Mohammadi is an Afghan journalist, research scholar, and women’s rights activist. She founded the Equality Social and Cultural Organization, which supports female journalists. In Afghanistan, she was a radio reporter for the United Nations News and “Hello Countrymen, Countrywomen” an Afghan radio program. She was the owner and chief editor of the Equality News Agency, which trained over 200 female journalists. Mohammadi is now working with the San Jose State University and is part of their Visiting Afghan Scholar program. She worked on research about the persecution of the Hazara people. She wants to do research on the rights Afghan women and girls have under the Taliban.
Life in Afghanistan 
Mohammadi was born and raised in Afghanistan. She worked as a radio reporter for the United Nations News. She was on a popular Afghan radio program called “Hello Countrymen, Countrywomen”. She founded the Equality Social and Cultural Organization (ESCO) in 2011. In 2020, she created the Equality News Agency to publish articles about women’s issues. This made her a target for the Taliban. On August 15th, 2021, the Taliban took control of Kabul, Afghanistan. When notified of the Taliban's arrival, Mohammadi had to destroy the documents of her coworkers and flee to the United States with her 2 children.
Work in the United States 
In the US, Mohammadi has partnered with the San Jose State University (SJSU) and their Visiting Afghan Scholar program. She researched the injustices being directed towards the Hazara people and would like to research women's rights in Afghanistan. She has continued to advocate for the women in Afghanistan from the United States, and says “Please don’t forget the people of Afghanistan, especially Afghan women and girls, support them to access their rights. Your support and providing such opportunities has not only brought a positive change in the lives of people like me, but has also saved our lives.”

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Pilar Agoyo is a native fashion designer. She works on costumes for movies and television shows. She has done work for The Avengers and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  Her design also appeared in an exhibit called "Art of Indigenous Fashion" at the The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. The book Native fashion now : North American Indian style calls Agoyo a "Provocateur," meaning she has new ideas people do not expect and that make them have strong feelings.

Early life 
She is from Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo near Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Agoyo originally wanted to be a painter. She went to the Institute of American Indian Arts. She took a class and realized she loved sewing and textiles. She loved it.

Career 
Agoyo has done a lot of work for Hollywood television and movies. She is also well known among indigenous designers in the United States.
Fashion 
In 2002, Agoyo opened a boutique in Santa Fe with Virgil Ortiz and Cody Sanderson. Sanderson was her husband.
Agoyo works with materials such as vinyl. May of her designs are inspired by traditional pottery designs from her pueblo. Agoyo has worked on lots of fashion shows. She also has museum exhibits, like the Art of Indigenous Fashion" at the The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.

She has won awards for her designs, including the Masked Heroes contest from First American Art Magazine and at the Heard Indian Market 2011 by the Southwestern Association for American Indian Arts.  The Poeh Pueblo Cultural Center also commissioned Agoyo to design masks that would appeal to others from her pueblo. Her work has been recognized by the Traditional Fine Arts Organization.

Hollywood 
Agoyo's first work for television was Into the West in 2005. She has worked on 37 movies and shows. Sometimes the fashions she makes for movies helps her think of a new fashion to create.

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Naoco Wowsugi (Sang Ja Chun) is a Korean-Japanese artist who lives in Washington D.C., United States. Wowsugi won an award from the Smithsonian Museum, the National Portrait Gallery’s 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Much of her art is made by many people working together. She is a professor at American University. In 2023, Wowsugi changed the spelling of her first name from "Naoko" to "Naoco" to endorse U.S. representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Early life and education 
Wowsugi was born and raised in Japan.  She is of South Korean descent. Her Korean name is Sang Ja Chun. When she was small, she dealt with social alienation, caused by being mixed-race Korean and Japanese.  Wowsugi studied in the Osaka University of Arts while she was in Japan.  She later moved to the United States. She graduated from the Kansas Art Institute. She graduated with a BFA from both schools. “As an artist, I emigrated from another country to America,” says Wowsugi. “Art making always connects people and I learn about the community." She then started expressing "contemporary social community" through art at Rockville, a city near Washington DC. Wowsugi got her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Career 
Wowsugi brings people together with collective hands on art projects that give back to their community. 

Wowsugi moved to Minneapolis, MN, USA. She began doing haircuts as performance art. She used the cut hair in her A Hairy Tale exjhibit.
She started creating community projects In 2019 in Charleston, she started a Community project called the Fungus among us.  Inspired by the mycelium network, more than 200 community members, toddlers to elders, collaborated together to create a mushroom parade in the neighborhood. The goal of this project was to show how fungi/mushrooms are so closely connected, similar to a strong community.  Apart from this, her second project was called MICROCOSMOS. It was a planetarium about mushrooms. It was open for 10 days, and more than 2,000 people attended.  Wowsugi is giving her community what she didn’t have as a child. Her goal is to make sure no one feels left out, no matter their age, gender or race.

She was a professor at  Virginia Commonwealth University. She now teaches at American University.
Wowsugi won theThe Outwin portrait award in 2016.  Her work, "Thank Your for Teaching Me English," is many portraits of people who taught her a word in English. She painted their picture and recorded them saying the word.  2016: American Portraiture Today (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)

Wowsugi was an Artist-in-Residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in 2017.

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Daniell Washington is an American marine biologist, science communicator, television host, and activist for ocean conservation. Washington was the first African American woman to host a television series about science. She founded the nonprofit organization Big Blue and You. Washington is seen on STEM-related shows like Mission Unstoppable, Science the $#*! Out of It, and Xploration Nature Knows Best. She is featured in NOVA's “Ocean Invaders.”

Career 
Washington grew up in Miami, Florida. Her family is from Jamaica. She loved the ocean since she was six years old. She graduated from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science in 2008. She was the only woman of color in her academic department at college.
When she was twenty-one she co-founded the nonprofit organization Big Blue and You with her mother. Big Blue and You is a group that inspires young people to care about ocean conservation. Washington help children learn about the ocean by helping them make art from recycled materials. Washington started the organization after she won the "Follow Your Heart Tour" award. She won US $10,000. She used the prize money to start the Art Sea Festival. The Art Sea Festival allows children to talk to scientists and artists who care about the ocean.

She also used the prize money to make the first episode of a television show for children about science. In 2016 Washington became the host of her own show on the Fox station “Xploration Station” where she talks about how scientists are taking inspiration from nature. The show lasted two seasons.

Washington co-hosted the series Science the $#*! Out of It with comedian Krystyna Hutchinson on Facebook Watch. In the series, they answered questions from the internet.
Washington wants women, non-binary people, and people of color to get excited about science. She wants them to understand they can be scientists. That is why she is on many television shows. She also started the podcast 21st Century Mermaids. That podcast  features women and non-binary ocean conservationists.

Awards 
Washington won the "Follow Your Heart Tour" prize from ROXY. She also won a "TogetherGreen" fellowship from the National Audobon Society and Toyota. Washington used the TogetherGreen Fellowship to teach 15 students filmmaking.  They will make public service announcements about conserving water. Washington was also named one of TheGrio's 100 in 2012.

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Brían Nguyen (born on July 16, 2003) was the first transgender woman to win a local Miss America beauty contest. She won the Miss Greater Derry event on Sunday, November 6, 2022. Being transgender means she is a person who was born a man but identifies as a woman. After she won, she also started the #QueensAreEverywhere movement. She helps young women feel more confident and strong.

Nguyen went to Nashua Community College and took a business class.

Accomplishments 
Before starting the #Queens Forever Movement, the 19-year-old Nguyen won the 2023 Miss Greater Derry beauty pageant.  She was the first ever local trans woman to do that.  After she won, she got the title of “Miss Greater Derry 2023,” a crown, and money to pay for school.

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Catherine Edeh is Nigeria's first deaf female lawyer. She is an activist for disability rights. Edeh is the first deaf female lawyer in Nigeria. Edeh started the Voice of Disability Initiative (VDI). She is the founder and Executive Director. She went to Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo, University of Ilorin, and University of Minnesota.

Early life 
Edeh was born in Enugu, Nigeria. She became deaf when she was five. Her parents wanted her to quit school and learn to be a seamstress or hairdresser. Edeh wanted to stay in school. She braided people's hair to save up money to go to college. She went to Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo, and learned sign language there. She studied at University of Ilorin, in Kwara State. Edeh then studied at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA.
Career 
Edeh noticed the amount of human rights violations disabled people go through every day. She wanted to do something about it. She believed that laws that protected disabled people needed to be put in place in Nigeria. Edeh got her Bachelor of Laws Degree at University of Ilorin. She was the only deaf person in her class. Edeh also studied in the U.S. She went to University of Minnesota. 

Edeh is the Executive Director of Voice of Disability Initiative. Their goal is to inspire disabled people, especially women. VDI also wants to protect the rights of disabled people. 

Edeh has been helping deaf people go to the Enugu State University of Science and Technology. She did not have a secondary school near her home where she could study. She had to go far away for school. So, she wants a school deaf students can attend in the south part of Nigeria.

Edeh also works to protect deaf girls from violence. She works for better healthcare fir girls with disabilities.
Personal life 
Edeh married a deaf man to avoid being mistreated by a hearing husband.

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Christine Philip is a clothing designer. She is currently the CEO of Global Glam.

Early life 
Philip was born in Manhattan. Her mother and father work in medicine. Her father is a pediatrician. She is Indian, German, and Portuguese. She studied at Rocky Bayou Christian School in Florida. She went to college at Emory University in Atlanta. In college, Philip worked in a store that sold expensive shoes. Customers liked her clothing. She began college studying medicine, but changed to marketing and finance.

Career 
Philip began her career by working at the Bally of Switzerland, a clothing house. She has worked in different countries before settling in the United States.  Philip searched for her passion, and tried many different types of clothing design and jewelry design. She started a couple of small businesses. She then started Global Glam and the magazine launched in 2015, which is a magazine and retailer. In 2020, Philip launched an e-commerce division of Global Glam.
Personal life 
Philip currently lives in Naples, Florida with her family. She enjoys free time by playing tennis or going to the beach.

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Maia Perez (born October 19, 1999) is an American professional soccer player.  She is a goalkeeper. She was drafted by Angel City FC in the United States'  National Women's Soccer League. They sent her to play in France for a few years. She is the starting Goalkeeper for Grand Paris Seine Ouest 92 Issy (GPSO 92 Issy) at the age of 23.

Early Life 
Perez grew up in East Kentwood, Michigan. She started to play soccer in the 2nd grade.  She was the goalkeeper when playing with the boys in her elementary school.

Career 
Perez began playing division 1 soccer for the Hartford Hawks in her freshman year.  She was in college for 5 years.  Perez began playing with Angel City FC in Los Angeles, CA, USA in March of 2022.  She currently plays with Grand Paris Seine Ouest 92 Issy (GPSO 92 Issy).  In 2023 she started playing for OL Reign of Seattle.

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Rahnee Patrick is the Asian American Director of the Division of Rehabilitation Services at the Illinois Department of Human Services. She is the first Asian American in this position. Patrick is an award-winning author and has 105 books published on Goodreads. In 2008, Patrick received an award from the American Association of People with Disabilities as a leader. She received the Paul Hearne Award.

Early life 
Patrick was born in South Bend, Indiana. Patrick was raised in the small town of North Liberty, Indiana. She has psoriasis and arthritis, which don’t let her use her arms or hands. Her parents met during the Vietnam conflict. Her mother, Ubonwan Patrick is originally from Thailand.

Education 
Patrick graduated from John Glenn High School in 1992. She graduated from Indiana University at South Bend in 1996. She co-founded Students Together Active and Respected at Indiana University, where she met others with disabilities.
Career 
Patrick graduated from Illinois University at South Bend in 1996. She then started becoming involved in the independent living and disability rights movements as well as the group ADAPT. In 2007, the Governor of Illinois had her start working for the Illinois State Advisory Council on the Education of Children with Disabilities. Then, in 2008 she was awarded the Paul Hearne award. Patrick graduated from Adler University with her Master's in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She currently lives in Chicago with her husband and 2 dogs.

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Chloe Psyche Anderson is a transgender woman volleyball player. She is the first transgender athlete in a California college or university. She met the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) 

Anderson grew up in Long Beach, California. In preschool, she loved playing princesses and dressing up. A while before kindergarten she started getting bullied. She got beat up almost every day for about 7 years. When she was in middle school, she started failing classes, trying not to get noticed. Her only target was to not get noticed. She only felt excited about playing volleyball. 

But by junior year she was feeling too sad. Her grades were too bad. She got kicked off the volleyball team at school.
Anderson began her transition from male to female at the age of 19 after years of feeling like she was assigned the wrong gender. Before her transition, she had always felt like she didn't belong with the boys, she felt like she belonged with the girls. Anderson’s mother wasn't accepting of her child's decision because she assumed Anderson was only cross-dressing. Eventually, she learned to accept her daughter. Her mother became a big supporter and always cheers for her at volleyball games. Anderson worked to afford treatments for gender transition. 

Anderson found it difficult to play volleyball while taking hormones. Her body did not work as expected.  By one year into her treatments, she was much slower and less powerful than before. Her "male muscles...melted off her body." She argues that trans players do not keep advantages of their gender before gender transition.
After Anderson changed the gender on her birth certificate and took gender replacement hormones for a year, both the California Community College Athletic Association and the NCAA let her play college volleyball.` Anderson played for Santa Ana Community College for two years and then changed to playing for the University of California Santa Cruz Volleyball team.

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Marisa Seepersaud is a Guyanese paediatric surgeon. She was the only pediatric surgeon in the country of Guyana until 2021. She provides surgical care for children and newborn babies.  She became one of the two surgeons in high demand later on. Seepersaud is the head of paediatric surgeons at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). She set up training programs that were not available in Guyana She helped train people who want to become surgeons. Seepersaud also introduced daycare surgeries that admitted patients within 24 hours of surgery.

Early Life 
Seepersaud grew up in Guyana. As a child, she wanted to become an astronaut. Due to the conditions and resources they had to keep in mind, she wasn’t able to continue her desire.

After graduating from the University of Guyana School of Medicine, she went to study at the University of West Indies Jamaica, to learn more in-depth about the paediatric surgical program.
Right after attending both universities, Seepsaud joined Baby Heart. Baby Heart is a non-profit team that focuses on performing surgeries around the world for children.

Awards 
In 2019, Seepersaud won the Canadian Association Paediatric Surgeon Global Scholar Award.

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Hot pockets are a Americanized version of a calzone made in the early 80's by Nestlé. They are commonly made in a microwave through you can make them in an oven and any other kitchen tool used for cooking.

American food
Nashwa Mamdouh El-Bendary is an Egyptian computer scientist. She researches climate change and its impact on agricultural crops. Her work won the L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science award in 2015. She also won the UNESCO ALECSO Award for creativity and technical innovation for young researchers in 2014.

Education 
El-Bendary studied Computer and Data Science at Cairo University. She graduated in 2000. She then earned a MA in 2004 and PhD in 2008.

Career 
El Bendary uses artificial intelligence to understand climate change. Computer science helps her understand how agricultural crops are impacted by climate.  She is interested in disease detection in crops. She is researching if artificial intelligence can help detect problems.
El-Bendary is a professor at the Arab Academy of Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AAST).  She is now the Dean of the College of Computing and Information Technology at the AASTMT (South Valley branch). She directs the China-Arab States Technology Transfer Center (CASTTC). 

She published over 80 research papers. She is also a member of the Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE).

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Source bias is a term from psychology. It means that when people select sources from where to get their information, they are more likely to pick either those sources that confirm what they already believe, or those that are very negative. This will then create so-called echo chambers for them. In news reporting, source bias affects how news organizations do news gathering in whom they choose to talk, and in news analysis, what they imply in the way they arrange facts collected.

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Robert Bakewell may refer to:

 Robert Bakewell (farmer) (1725–1795), pioneering English farmer
 Robert Bakewell (ironsmith) (1682–1752), English wrought ironsmith
 Robert Bakewell (geologist) (1768–1843), English geologist
Robert Bakewell (23 May 1725 – 1 October 1795) was an English farmer, now seen as one of the most important figures in the  and a pioneer of modern agriculture. As well as his work in crop production and soil management, he is well-known as the first to put forward systematic selective breeding of livestock. His advancements not only led to specific improvements in sheep, cattle and horses, but contributed to general knowledge of artificial selection.

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Jack, Johnny, or John Ball may refer to:

Clergymen
John Ball (priest) ( 1338 – 1381), English radical priest and leader of 1381 Peasants' Revolt
John Ball (minister) (1665–1745), English Presbyterian minister
John Ball (clergyman) (before 1760 – after 1795), African-American minister from Nova Scotia
John Ball (bishop) (1934–2016), British Anglican bishop

Performers
Johnny Ball (born 1938), English children's television presenter 
John Ball (musician) (born 1990), American Christian musician

Politicians
John Ball (16th-century MP) (1518–1556), English Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich
John Ball (assemblyman) (1756–1838), American soldier and politician
John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, MP for Dublin University 1868–1875
John Ball (naturalist) (1818–1889), Irish naturalist and politician, MP for County Carlow 1857–1880
John Ball (pioneer) (1794–1884), American pioneer and state politician
John Ball (Drogheda MP), MP for Drogheda in the Irish House of Commons
Sportsmen
John Ball (golfer) (1861–1940), English amateur golfer; winner of The Open Championship 
Jack Ball (footballer, born 1900) (1900–1989), English footballer for Bury and England
Jack Ball (footballer, born 1907) (1907–1976), English football forward
Jack Ball (footballer, born 1923) (1923–1999), English football goalkeeper
John Ball (footballer, born 1925) (1925–1998), English footballer for Bolton Wanderers
John Ball (soccer, born 1972), American footballer for Rochester Rhinos

Writers
John Ball (Puritan) (1585–1640), English author and scholar
John Ball (pioneer) (1794–1884), American explorer
John Ball (geologist) (1872–1941), English geologist 
John Ball (novelist) (1911–1988), American novelist
Sir John M. Ball (born 1948), English mathematician 
John Ball (cognitive scientist) (born 1963), American cognitive scientist
"Border Song" is a 1970 song by Elton John. It is from his second studio album Elton John. It went to number 29 in the Netherlands, number 34 in Canada and number 91 in the United States and did not chart in the United Kingdom. It has been covered by Aretha Franklin and Willie Nelson.

Format and track list
1970 US/Canadian 7" single
 "Border Song" 3:22
 "Bad Side of the Moon" 3:15

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Marion E. Wong (1895-1969) was an American filmmaker of Chinese descent. She is one of a few known female directors of movies. Womg created the first known Asian American-made movie. She wrote, produced, directed and acted in the Curse of Quon Gwon. Wong also made the scenery and costumes. It was one of the only movies that featured Chinese Americans in a non-stereotypical view. After making Curse of Quon Gwon, she became bankrupt and stopped filmmaking. Her movie became lost except for 2 tins, which were recently discovered.
Early life: 
Wong was born in San Francisco. She moved to Oakland when she was young. She went to until she moved. Because she was the youngest of a big family, she probably got homeschooled after moving. Her family owned a cafe. As  a child, she spent a lot of time at the cafe. When she was 15, she and her brothers went to China to find spouses. At that time, there was an act called the Geary Act. It made it hard for Chinese immigrants to come to the United States. Because of that, Wong and her brothers could only stay in China for one year. If they stayed longer, they could not return to the United Sattes. In China, one of her brothers died of smallpox. The other brother found a good wife named Violet. Violet and Wong became good friends. Meanwhile, Wong found a someone to be her husband. She rejected him and went back to the United States without a husband.
After returning to the United States, Wong started writing the screenplay for her first movie. Charlie Chaplin filmed part of his movie, One Night Out, near Wong’s family’s cafe. She led her to creating a movie from the screenplay. She hired one of Chaplin's people to be the cameraman for the movie.. This cost a lot of money. She got support from her uncle who was wealthy. She started her own movie company. This company was called Mandarin Film Company. Her movie was much better than most movies made by beginner directors.This is partly because of the good person working the camera. She directed and produced her movie. This movie starred Violet (her sister-in-law), her mother, Violet’s daughter and a professional actor, Harvey Soo Hoo. Her movie was different from other movies of that time. Other movies did not represent Chinese-Americans well. The other movies that had Chinese-Americans in them at that time were all very stereotyped
. “I had never seen any Chinese movies,” said Wong, “so I decided to introduce them to the world.” In the first screenings of her movie, people loved it. Because her movie didn’t have stereotypes that were common at that time, distributors wouldn’t buy it. Wong couldn’t pay back her uncle. Her uncle became broke. She was really sad about her failure. She decided to not be a filmmaker. She “asked the family to never speak of her film again”.
The revival of The Curse of Quon Gwon 
In 1969, Violet told her grandson Gregory Mark about a canister containing the rolls of The Curse of Quon Gwon. She told him to “do something with it.” In 2004 an Asian-American filmmaker Arthur Dong discovered the film rolls and took the to the Academy Film Archive to restore the film. In December of 2006 the film was recognized as an important historical and cultural film by the National Film Registry. Out of the 8 reels of the film only 2 are saved as of now and you can see them in the Oakland Museum of California.

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Georgette Vidor Mello (born 5 October 1958) is  a Brazilian gymnastics coach and politician. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  She has worked as head of artistic gymnastics and as a coach at Clube de Rogatos de Flamengo.  Vidor worked with the Brazilian National Women's Team for 15 years. With her as coach, the Brazilian team won their first Pan American gold medals and their first world medal. Vidor had an accident that caused her to be paraplegic. She still went on to coach more top athletes.

In 2002, Vidor was elected State Representative, with 50,350 votes. She later became a Deputy and created the first permanent commission in defense of people with disabilities in State Legislative Assemblies in Brazil, She also created the accessibility seal and held seminars every year. Vidor was part of the party executive. She helped others to prepare for their jobs. As of January 2023,  Vidor was Head of Municipal Secretariat for People with Disabilities. She has held this position since May 2011.
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Makiko Kudo (Born in 1978) is a Japanese painter. When Kudo was young, most paintings showed real life things. She paints fiction. People did not like that. Kudo’s way of painting was seen as political resistance. She grew up with stiff social structures and a failing economy. 

Her paintings always have a child in them. The child shows her generation’s worry about adulthood. 

In 2007, she had a display of her art at Tomio Koyama Gallery in Kiyosumi, Japan. She had another display at Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan in 2022. 

She painted a picture for the Metropolitan Opera of New York. The opera started an art gallery. Her painting was in the first exhibit. She painted Princess Yue-yang from The New Emperor.

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Lola Smallwood-Cuevas is an American politician. She became a senator in the California Senate in 2022.  Smallwood-Cuevas represents District 28. The district is for South Los Angeles and Culver City, CA. She started the Black Worker Center at University of California, Los Angeles.  President Barak Obama liked the work Smallwood-Cuevas did for workers.

Family and Early Life 
Smallwood-Cuevas was raised in a single parent household. She movedto California, with her mother, when she was young. Her mother wanted better jobs and schools. Her mother is a nurse. Smallwood-Cuevas graduated from California State University at Hayward. She is married. She has one daughter and one son.
Career 
Smallwood-Cuevas was a journalist. She wrote for the Chicago Tribune, the Long Beach Press Telegram and the Oakland Tribune. She reported on the lives of working families. She then worked as a researcher for United Service Workers West. Smallwood-Cuevas co-founded the LA Black Worker Center. She also works with the Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity at Work at UCLA.

California State Senate 
Smallwood Cuevas became a California State Senator on December 5, 2022. She is part of the Democratic Party. She represents district 28 in Los Angeles California. She got 99,479 votes out of 140,996 total votes. She had 59.9% of the votes.

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Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Politicians from Los Angeles
California State Senators
Lama Hattab (born December 31, 1980) is a Middle Eastern ultramarathon runner from Jordan. Hattab and her twin sister, Dima Hattab are known for being the first females from the Middle East to run an ultramarathon. She is also a leader in "Generation of Peace" in Amman, Jordan.

Early life 
Hattab is a twin. She and her sister Dima have many hobbies that they do together. They grew up in Tabarbour, Jordan, near Amman. 

Hattab graduated from the University of Amman. She studied Information Technology.

Sports 
Hattab and her sister love sports. They like to run and to cycle. They look for new sports to try.
Running 
Hattab and her sister run marathons and ultramarathons. She ran in the Marathon de Sables and the Dead Sea ultramarathon.  Men were not nice to them at the marathons. Hattab won the Dead Sea Marathon the first time she ran it. Hattab encourages running in the Middle East, especially among young girls.  She is also a leader in Generation of Peace an organization in Amman, Jordan. Hattab also ran in the Dead Sea in 1999 where she placed in 3rd.

Hattab and her sister together ran in the national team of Jordan. They were around 17 or 18 years old. She ran distance races, including 800-meter and 1500 meter runs.  In her first half marathon, she ran her and her sister did not sign up. They were among the first Jordanian women to run in marathons. Their coach was in the desert but couldn’t make the race she was planning on running with her friends. She changed the names and told the Hattab twins to run slow as part of their training.
Mountaineering 
Hattab also loves mountaineering. She and her sister wanted to be the first Arab women to be mountaineers in the Guinness Book of World Records. They hoped to climb the tallest mountain on each continent. In 2007, the twins went to Alaska, USA, to train to climb mountains. 

First, Hattab and her sister climbed the highest mountain in North Africa's Atlas Mountains. In 2007, Jordan's Prince Faisal Bin Al-Hussein started a "Generations for Peace Initiative." The twins climbed the mountain to get attention for the Generations for Peace Initiative. They liked mountain climbing and want to climb more mountains. The Jordanian Olympics Committee said their climb was good for peace.

Their dream was to climb Mt. Everest. Jordan's King Abdullah's "Development Fund" help pay for their climb. But they could not get enough money to make the climb. They needed US$750,000. Companies did not think women can do sports, so did not give them money.
Career 
Hattab worked for the Jodanian Olympic Committee. At work she learned about an organization called Generations for Peace. In 2007, Prince Feisal Al Hussein of Jordan started that organization.  The organization used sports and art to help young people make peace in places with war or other conflict.. She volunteered to work with children. She liked it and began to work for Generations for peace in 2009. Hattab is now the Program Director for Generations for Peace.

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Living people
Long-distance runners
Jordanian sportspeople
Dima Hattab (born Dec. 31, 1980) is a Jordanian ultramarathon runner and mountain climber. She runs races that are longer than 26 miles. She has competed in the Marathon des Sables and the Desert Cup, and other races. Hattab, and her twin sister Lama, are the first female Jordanian long distance runners. They aim to be the first twin sisters and the first Arab women to climb Earth’s tallest mountains. Hattab holds a degree in Information Technology.

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Living people
Long-distance runners
Jordanian sportspeople
1980 births
Modest fashion is a style of fashion with less-revealing and private clothing. Some Muslim, Jewish, and Christian women wear modest fashion. In 2022, the modest fashion industry earned US $295 billion. It will earn US $402 billion industry by 2024. This style is worn by many people in the Middle East and Northern Africa. The countries with the highest spendings are Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Muslims from other areas such as Indonesia also wear modest fashion. Roughly 87% of Indonesia’s population is Muslim.

Types of Modern Fashion 
Modest fashion includes wide legged pants, sheer dresses with non-transparent tops underneath, and traditional abayas.
Hijabs 
Hijabs, or head scarves, are scarves or shawls that are usually a part of modest wardrobes. It can be worn to express a person’s identity. French and British colonizers encouraged women in the Middle East  to remove the hijab, so many see it as a sign of protest and pride. Some people think that the hijab should be worn to avoid men’s gaze. The hijab is popular in the United States to prove religious identity, as well. Or, to deepen connections with God. Hijabs mainly represent privacy and morality, as well. In some countries, such as Iran and Aceh Province of Indonesia, wearing the hijab is mandatory. This choice has led to protests, such as the death of Mahsa Amini.

Modest fashion companies

Miss Ayşe by Ayşe Yıldırım
Yildirim (Yıldırım) is a Turkish modest fashion designer running the brand Miss Ayshe (Ayşe) in Istanbul, Turkey. She focuses on making beautiful clothing while keeping it appropriate for Muslim women to wear. She is passionate about exposing luxury or big brands for targeting Muslim audiences but not admitting that they are.

An example is Zara. Rather than labeling clothes as modest, they work to make it easy to layer. This means they make money from Muslims but don't acknowledge it.

Dulce by Safiya by Safiya Abdallah 
Abdallah makes the clothing for Dulce by Safiya. She makes fashionable shirts with hoods (called "hoodies") and hats called "beanies" that cover women's hair like hijabs.

The Frock by Simi Polonsky and Chaya Chanin 
Polonsky and Chanin are Jewish designers. They are sisters. They are from Sydney, Australia. Polonsky is a widow.
They started a modest fashion company called The Frock. Their clothes cover women's knees, elbows, and shoulders. Ploansky wanted modest dress but hated looking different from other people.

They like to take clothes that are immodest and mix them with modest clothes. They cover their bodies but include immodest fashion.

Mimu Maxi by Mimi Hecht and Mushky Notik 
Hecht and Notik are also Jewish designers. Their clothing is popular with Jewish and Muslim women. Notik grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  Hecht grew up in Seattle, Washington, USA. Modest clothes were expensive. Also they were not pretty. They make clothes that are for layering - for example, wearing a dress and pants and a jacket, or wearing two dresses.

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Fashion
Religious clothing
Jocelyn Larocque (Born May 19, 1988) is a Canadian Olympic hockey player. She was the first female indigenous woman to play on Team Canada at the Olympics. She is a part of the Métis Nation. She has won two Olympic gold medals, and one silver medal. In 2018, she won the Manitoba Female Indigenous Athlete of the Decade award. Larocque has won a total of 9 world championships.

Early life 
Larocque grew up in St. Anne, Manitoba, Canada. As a child, she would play hockey on boys’ teams. She went to college at the University of Minnesota Duluth. While there, she was made all-American twice.

Career 
Larocque was an all-American twice (2008-2009, 2010-2011). She began her career playing for the Calgary Oval X-Treme. She has been a player on the Canadian National Hockey team since 2008.
Olympics 
Larocque won her first Olympic medal at the 2014 Sochi games, where Canada took the gold. She returned to the games for Pyeongchang 2018, with Canada winning silver. Her most recent games were the 2022 Beijing Olympics, where Canada won gold.

World Championships 
Larocque has won gold medals at 3 world championships. She has also won silver medals 5 times, and bronze once.

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Canadian Olympians
Canadian ice hockey players
1988 births
Enriqueta Reyes González (October 10, 1920-2008) was the first female firefighter in Cuba and greater Latin America.  She joined the Ranchuelo fire department in 1954. Reyes González was promoted from treasurer to director to colonel. Her nickname was “The Colonel.”

Early Life 
Reyes González was born in Camagüey. She spent her childhood in a Christian community. When she was  seventeen Reyes González moved to Ranchuelo. Her mother came with her. Her mother was sick. She only had five Pesos. She had a recommendation for a cigarette factory job. Later many of her neighbors' houses caught on fire. She decided to raise money for a fire department. In 1953 Reyes González hosted a fundraiser. Her town finally built a fire department.

Career 
Reyes González was the first woman to become a firefighter in Cuba and greater Latin America. She started as the treasurer. Later she became a director. Then she finally became the head firefighter.
Personal Life 
Reyes González had a daughter named María de los Ángeles González. Her family supported her work. Reyes González died in 2008 from a heart attack. She was 88 years old.

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Cuban people
1920 births
2008 deaths
Elaine Denniston (born 1939) was a punch card operator for the Apollo program.  She corrected a lot of computer code that made the rockets work better.

Early life 
Denniston was brought up in Boston, Massachusetts. She went to Girls' Latin High School and graduated in 1957. Her school did not teach science. Denniston then got married to a man named Baron D. Denniston. She had two children.

Career 
Denniston worked as a clerk after high school. 

At the New England Life Insurance Company she learned to be a keypunch operator. She made the holes in punched cards. In the 1950s and 1960s, those cards were how computers got information. So, computer programmers wrote computer code on paper. Keypunch operators then punched code onto the punched cards to get the code into the computers.

Apollo program
Apollo program 

In 1966 Denniston went to work for the MIT Instrumentation Lab (now called Draper Laboratory). Her job at MIT was to keypunch data that programmers wrote for the Apollo Project. She helped make rockets to go to the Moon. She worked on guidance systems - the parts that controlled the rocket's movements. 

Her job was to keypunch cards but she saw many mistakes the coders made. She started editing and correcting code. She learned coding rules. She saw mistakes and learned how to correct them. 

Her contributions were recognized in the BBC Podcast, 13 Minutes to the Moon and the We Hack The Moon exhibit.
Hardships 
Denniston faced many hardships during her work on Apollo. Denniston was told to train a person so she did.  The company she worked for eventually reorganized the employee positions and the person that Denniston trained then became her boss because he had some college credits but also he was a man. She also had problems with the programmers. The programmers often made excuses as to why the code wasn’t finished so Denniston used her persistent attitude to make sure it was finished on time and able to run overnight.

Later career 
Denniston could not get a better job at MIT because she was a woman and she was Black.  She left MIT in 1968. Denniston went to study at Radcliffe College. She graduated in 1973.

Denniston then studied at Boston University Law School. She became a lawyer. Most of her work was for the government of the state of Massachusetts. Denniston retired in 2012.

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Apollo program
1939 births
Possibly living people
People from Boston
Kim Hamrock (Born 1960) is an American surfer. She was awarded the “2005 Woman of the Year” by the Surfing Walk of Fame. Hamrock has won many US surfing competitions. She won the national  Longboard Championship. She wrote the book “My Grandma Surfs Better than You”. The book was published in 2017. Hamrock is nicknamed “Danger Woman” because she does not let male surfers bully her. She also teaches surfing.

Early life 
Hamrock grew up in La Habra Heights. She lived twenty miles from the coast. Hamrock was six years old the first time she saw someone surfing. The surfer was on television. She liked surfing from seeing it on television.  At age 13 she went to Hawaii with her grandmother. She surfed for the first time.
Career 
Hamrock went to school at La Serna High in Whittier, CA. She did not live near the ocean. At age 16 she was able to drive a car. Then, she could drive to the ocean to surf. She would surf even though men thought girls should not surf.  She would also get car rides to the ocean from Marty Hamrock. She married Marty Hamrock in 1979. She had children and did not surf very much. 

Hamrock became serious about surfing in 1990. She began winning competitions.

Awards 
During the mid-1990’s Hamrock won six national U.S. awards. She won four shortboards awards 1993-96 and two longboard awards in 1995-96. Hamrock began surfing professionally in 1998. She placed third in the Women’s Longboard World Championship in 1999. She placed fifth in 2000 and won the Women’s Longboard World Champion in 2002. In 2005 she was runner-up at the XXL Big Wave Awards.

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1960 births
Living people
American surfers