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To-do List
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The women listed here were nominated by Smithsonian staff, but we welcome you to add other notable women needing new or improved articles. Here you will find a link to an article that needs improvement or an article that needs to be created, and resources for use.


 * Clotilde Arias - Peruvian-American lyricist and composer. Needs improvement.
 * Alice Bag - Mexican-American singer. Needs Improvement.
 * Claudine K. Brown - Artist, educator, and former Smithsonian's Director of Education, director of the National African-American Museum Project, director of the arts and culture program at the Nathan Cummings Foundation Image
 * Olivia Cadaval - Curator, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution
 * Jeannine Smith Clark - Docent at National Museum of Natural History, first volunteer to serve on Smithsonian Board of Regents, Smithsonian Women’s Committee Chair, and first head of the Cultural Education Committee at Smithsonian Folklife Center Image
 * John Clavon Norman Jr.
 * Amina Dickerson - Director of Education, National Museum of African Art Image
 * Mitsuye Endo - Challenged constitutionality of the forced removals of Japanese and Japanese Americans in U.S. Related -Ex parte Endo
 * Marisol Escobar - Venezuelan painter. Needs Improvement.
 * Rosita Fernandez - Mexican-American singer & actress. Needs Improvement.
 * Scherezade Garcia - Dominican-American artist
 * Maggie Gee (pilot) - Chinese-American Pilot. Needs improvement.
 * Carmen Herrera - Cuban-American painter. Needs improvement.
 * Donna House - Navajo ethnobotanist, environmental scientist
 * Regina Olson Hughes - Botanical illustrator, USDA exceptional service award in 1962, Translator
 * Lois K. Alexander Lane - Founder Harlem Institute of Fashion
 * Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee - First Chinese-American woman to register to vote in U.S. Needs improvement.
 * Sophie G. Lutterlough - 1st African American female Elevator Operator & Museum Technician, National Museum of Natural History Image
 * Edith T. Martin - Museum Technician, Smithsonian American Art Museum
 * Afong Moy - 1st Chinese Female Immigrant to U.S. Needs Improvement.
 * Mary McGladery Tape, created at Mary Tape- Chinese-American education desegregation activist. See Tape v. Hurley
 * Lydia Mendoza - Mexican-American Singer. Needs improvement.
 * Ramona Sakiestewa - Hopi Artist
 * Julia Santos Solomon - Dominican-American multimedia artist. Needs improvement.
 * Toyo Suyemoto - Japanese-American Librarian, Poet
 * Kay WalkingStick - Cherokee artist. Needs improvement.
 * Kao Kalia Yang - Hmong-American Writer, needs improvement
 * Louise J. Suski - First English Language Editor of the Japanese American newspaper, the Rafu Shimpo.
 * Shizue Iwatsuki - Japanese American Poet.
 * Yuriko Amemiya - Japanese American Dancer.
 * Michiko Iseri - Japanese American Dancer.
 * Eleanor Glewwe - Hapa Chinese American author of Sparkers.
 * Faith Sai So Leong - First Chinese American woman dentist in the U.S.
 * Margaret Jessie Chung - First Chinese American woman physician in the U.S.
 * Sugar Pie DeSanto - Blues Singer. Needs Improvement.
 * Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Scholar. Needs Improvement.
 * Toyo Suyemoto - Writer.
 * Betye Saar - artist
 * Drusilla Dundee Houston - African American educator, historian, author of Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire published in 1926. (Needs to be created)
 * Margot Webb - African American ballroom dancer. Partnered with Harold Norton in the 1930s & 40s (needs to be created)
 * Ona "Oney" Maria Judge Staines - Black slave of George Washington who challenged George Washington and won her freedom. (Needs to be created)

Articles Needing Improvements

 * Lonnie Bunch - Founding Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture
 * Solomon G. Brown - 1st African American employee at the Smithsonian, prominent Anacostia resident
 * Louise Daniel Hutchinson - Educator. New information.
 * John Kinard - 1st African American director of a Smithsonian museum, Anacostia Museum
 * Louis Purnell - Smithsonian’s first African American curator, National Air and Space Museum []