Wikipedia:WikiProject Smithsonian AWHI/Meetup/Smithsonian Affiliates

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This page documents a worklist for Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative + Smithsonian Affiliates + Wiki Education project.

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Women in Food
Atlanta-based food entrepreneur and baker Wikidata Property

Founder and owner of restaurant Casa Adela Wikidata Property

A State Superintendent of Domestic Science and private caterer who published the cookbook - "The Federation Cookbook: A Collection of Tested Recipes Compiled by the Colored Women of the State of California" Wikidata Property

baker, entrepreneur, engineer, owner of the cafe "Souk" and co-owner of the bakery "The Sweet Lobby" Wikidata Property

chef Wikidata property

pastry chef Wikidata Property

Food Network host of Delicious Miss Brown Wikidata Property

Baker, owner of Back in the Day bakery in Savannah, GA Image from Wikimedia Commons Wikidata Property

Philadelphia based chef of Sazon Wikidata Property



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owners of McBride Sisters Collection Wine Company (Largest Black-owned wine company in the United States)

co-owner of Ben's Chili Bowl Wikidata Property

New Orleans activist, sommelier, bartender, and cofounder of the creative agency "Radical XChange" Wikidata Property

visionary founder and CEO of WANDA: Women Advancing Nutrition, Dietetics and Agriculture Wikidata Property

Monticello research historian Wikidata Property

Multi-disciplinary Artist and cultural preservationist Wikidata Property

James Beard award winning pastry chef

Chef and Culinary Director (Living), Praising the Pupusa: DC's Love for an Iconic Salvadoran Dish - Source includes information about her business. Bio, James Beard Foundation - Source includes basic bio and shows that she was a James Beard Foundation 2020 Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership Fellow

Women in Science


Wikispecies
 * first researcher in Panama to specialize in the study of bryophytes Wikidata property

head of (and helped create) the Advanced Engineering Development Branch at NASA Wikidata property

research botanist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

biologist and primate keeper at the Smithsonian National Zoo

(d. 1722) naturalist, first female in the American British colonies to gather plant and animal specimens for scientific collections

Astrogeologist and Director of the Universities Space Research Association's Lunar and Planetary Institute (Living)

Geologist and Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. Currently working with NASA to explore Mars (Living)

Research Co-Director for the non-profit Future of Fish and science advocate

Women in Art
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(d. November 24, 2017) artist, sports artist, teacher - Her art is part of the MOMA collection, her portrait of Pope John Paul II hangs in the Vatican Museum. Commissioned by the US Olympic Committee to create a piece for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta

ballroom dancer, translate from [|Spanish] or [|Italian] Wikipedia articles. English article is about her and her husband combined - can be separated. Wikidata property for Irene Castle, property for Vernon and Irene Castle

Co-founder of the Daughters of Dorcas and Sons Quilting Guild of Washington, DC. Wikidata property

Métis multidisciplinary artist, founder of the REDress Project. Wikidata property

Folk Artist

Native American Women
(Yakama): University of Washington biographical article


 * Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project profile page, University of Washington blog post of interview with Ramona Bennett


 * Women's History article


 * Best American Poetry blog post, AM New York Metro article with quotations and interview excerpts

(Washoe, 1889–1965): Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, A to Z of American Indian Women

(Fond du Lac Band Ojibwe), director of business development, University of Arizona:, The College of St. Scholastica welcome letter


 * Winnipeg Free Press obituary, Métis Museum, InTensions Journal, Dane Allard thesis, UBC

(Dena'ina Athabascan) — Alaska Legislature, Alaska Pacific University

(Iñupiaq, b. 1924), Alaskan Republican state legislator — Alaska Legislature, other source material may be found at Ancestry website, not many sources on her

(Cahuilla, 1853–1922), basket maker: A to Z of American Indian Women, The Press-Enterprise, University of California Calisphere collections (Public Domain image),

(Nez Perce), fashion model: Online interview article,Model bio page

(Lokono/Guyana-Barbados) Possible split from Lokono article.

Guyanese women's organization

also Irene Nicholia (Athabascan), Alaskan Democrat state legislator: Alaska Legislature, plus Doyon, Limited may have pointers to additional sources in their archives (her husband is one of their executives)

also F. Kay Wallis (Athabascan), Alaskan Democrat state legislator: Alaska Legislature

(Yakama): Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award announcement, Washington State University digital project interview

(Oneida), land claim activist: The Oneida - Oneida Indian Nation News, Oneida Indian Nation, Observer-Dispatch article

"Princess Atalie Unkalunt" Cherokee Nation, 1895 – 1954

a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and activist for Native Women Wikidata property

Women in Business or Entertainment




crowned Miss Black Florida in 1971 Wikidata property

writer, manager of high profile hip-hop artists such as RZA, GZA, A Tribe Called Quest, etc.

graphic designer and firm owner, established the first woman-owned graphic design firm in Hawaii

founder of beauty supply stores

designer, founder Creative Reaction Lab (Living)

DJ, activist, organizer, writer, artist, co-founded Asian Solidarity Collective Wikidata Property

Women in Journalism
Managing Editor, Digital - KQED

Maynard Institute, Co-Executive Director

president of AAJA

American radio journalist, Wikidata property

executive editor, Refinery29

NBC News Asian voices reporter

Sacramento Bee

Wikidata Property

(Prabjot (PJ) Kaur Randhawa) first Sikh broadcast journalist and the first to win an Emmy Award

Editor-In-Chief, Fast Company Magazine

White House Reporter, Buzzfeed News

(1919-September 29, 1966) Cartoonist, magazine editor, sports journalist. Drawings in permanent collection of the International Tennis Hall of Fame

AAPI Women & Organizations
Minnesota Orchestra associate conductor

who opposed statehood although her reasoning for it has not stood the test of time

president of Hui Aloha ʻĀina for Women

Hawaii

Hawaii

first Asian American female judge in Hawaii (c. 1957) Wikidata Property

development of culturally appropriate programs, advocate for children

first female to serve as the Attorney General of Hawaii, for a partial term (1985-1987) Wikidata Property

Hula master, 1984 NEA National Heritage Fellow Wikidata property

at 9 years old in 1924, Lum was prohibited from attending public schools in Mississippi because she was of Chinese descent See also, Lum v. Rice

Activists
desegregated Charleston, SC public schools, educator Wikidata Property

(1938–2013) civil rights and prison reform activist based in Mississippi Wikidata Property

(1913–2006) civil rights activist, recipient of several prominent awards for her work Wikidata Property

Professor at Grand Valley State University, coined the term "Transnational Adoption Industrial Complex", Wikidata Property

Charleston, SC civil rights activist. Worked alongside her husband Esau Jenkins but her contributions are frequently minimized Wikidata Property

NYC Chinatown Health Fair founder Wikidata Property

Law / Politics, etc.
first woman to serve as an acting member of the South Carolina Supreme Court, elected 1988

first woman to earn a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, first female faculty member of the University of South Carolina

the first Black woman elected to the S.C. General Assembly, lobbied for the preservation of the Avery Normal School which became the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Wikidata Property

Athletics / Sports
(August 13, 1927 - May 2, 2012) One of the first female tennis tournament directors. Archives held at International Tennis Hall of Fame (ITHF) and Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSPA)

Sport / tennis photographer, American Express 2000 US Open advertising campaign used her photographs of Billie Jean King, Bjorn Borg, and Michael Chang. Her 1978 portrait of Billie Jean King was featured in the May 2004, 50th Anniversary Issue of Sports Illustrated. 

Won the Wimbledon Junior Tennis Championships in 1958 Wikidata property

Women in Food
Owner and chef at LA's first Afro-Mexican restaurant - Tamales Elena y Antojitos

Brewer and owner of Harlem Brewing company

food editor of Essence magazine from 1984-2008 and the author of several cookbooks Wikidata Property

Owner of the ethiopian restaurant Mamma Desta (est. 1977) and former chief cook for the Ethiopian Ambassador to the United Nations

Chef and First Black Woman To Earn A Michelin Star

inventor of Beauty Blender

founder of NYX cosmetics