GIRAFFE'S WOMEN OF THE MONTH

Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues"

Rainey (January, 2021)

Grace Bedell, 11-year-old advisor to Abraham Lincoln

Bedell (December, 2020)

Maggie Lena Walker, first African American woman to charter a bank

Walker (November, 2020).

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ginsburg (October, 2020).

Judy Chicago, Feminist

chicago (September, 2020).

Aqui Thami, Founder of Sister Library

Thami (August, 2020).

Dr. Heather Cox Richardson, "How the South Won the Civil War"

Richardson (July, 2020).

Joyce Linker, Board Chair of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco

Linker (June, 2020).

Cheryl A. Wall, champion of black literary women

Wall (May, 2020).

Rose Valante, who documented Nazi theft of artworks so they could be recovered

Valante (April, 2020).

Susan Fowler, who outed the abusive culture at Uber

Fowler (March, 2020)

Gracie Gold, Olympic medalist who overcame an eating disorder and depression to return to competition

Gold (February, 2020)

Gail Bradbrook, climate change warrior

Bradbrook (January, 2020)

Michelle Holzapfel, wood carver, 2019 USA Fellow

Holzapfel (December, 2019)

Simone Biles, Gymnast Extraordinary

Biles (November, 2019)

Tanyaradzwa Muzinda, Zimbabwe's 15-year-old Motocross champion.

Muzinda (October, 2019)

Katherine Johnson, NASA Space Mathematician

Johnson (September, 2019)

Lindsay Jayne Ashford, author of "The Snow Gypsy"

Ashford (August, 2019)

Laura Kraup Frandsen, a student who questions green-house gas emissions by the fashion industry

Laura (July, 2019)

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Mirror Works

Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, (June, 2019)

Beyonce, woman of courage and professionalism

Beyonce (May, 2019)

Anthea Hamilton, Turner Prize nominee

Hamilton (April, 2019)

Olga de Almaral, woven metallic tapestries

Amaral (March. 2019)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amercan congresswoman and activist

Ocasio-Cortez (February, 2019)

Christine Blasey Ford, Congressional Supreme Court witness

Ford (January, 2019)

Margaret Hamilton, Winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Hamilton (December, 2018)

Caitriona Lally, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature

Lally (November, 2018)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice

RBG (October, 2018)

Maggie Taylor, "Landscape of Dreams"

Taylor (September, 2018)

Maxine Solomon, distinguished San Francisco Bay area painter

Solomon (August, 2018)

Cynthia Pannucci, ASCI Founder and Director

Panucci (July, 2018)

Lisa Brice, Reimaginng the Female Nude

Brice (June, 2018)

Tara Hernandez, Professional Software Developer (May, 2018)

Statue of Liberty (April, 2018)

Nancy Spector, creator of the Golden Toilet act of performance art

Spector (March, 2018)

Helen Grace James, who forced the U. S. Airforce to give her an Honorary Discharge some 60 years later.

James.(February, 2018)

Dr. Ellie Lobel, Lyme Disease protocol pioneer

Lobel (January, 2018)

Nancy Friday, author of The Secret Garden

Friday (December, 2017)

Yayoi Kusama, King of the Polka Dot

Kusama (November, 2017)

Judith Bernstein, original Guerilla Girl

Bernstein (October, 2017)

Susan Kaprov, multimedia artist

Kaprov (September, 2017)

Susan Ressler, Author, Educator, Documentary Photographer

Ressler (August, 2017)

Karen Gutfreund, Artist, Curator, Entrepreneur

Gutfreund (July, 2017)

Anna Ursyn, Head of Computer Graphics, School of Art and Design, University of Northern Colorado

Ursyn (June, 2017)

Mary Visser, Professor of Art and Brown Chair Holder, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas

Visser (May, 2017)

Polly Hoover Taylor, Pioneer Award Winner, San Mateo, California, Chamber of Commerce

Taylor (April, 2017)

Ruth Waters, Founder and Executive Director of the Peninsula Art Museum

Waters, (March, 2017)

Claudia Rankine, MacArthur Genius Fellow

Rankine. (February, 2017)

Each month we review the work of hundreds of women before selecting one that we feel is worthy of our "Woman of the Month" designation. If you know of a woman that we should consider, we welcome your suggestions.

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