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Kathryn S. McKinley (b. 1962) is a computer scientist whose research focuses on runtime systems, compilers and computer architecture. She worked for Microsoft as Principal Researcher and is currently a Senior Research Scientist for Google.
She studied computer science and engineering at Rice University, and later taught at other institutions such as the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Texas at Austin. She has won numerous awards for her work from the Association for Computing Machinery, such as the Distinguished Scientist and the Test of Time Award.
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) is one of the most prominent figures in the fight for women’s voting rights in the United States. She was one of the leaders of the campaign that finally saw voting rights extended to women in 1920.
She studied Science at Iowa State University, graduating as the valedictorian and the only woman in her class. She later became the first female reporter in San Francisco. In her native Iowa, she was highly active in the Woman Suffrage Association and helped form the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (1926-2003) was an academic and prolific writer. She was the first woman to receive tenure in the English department of Columbia University.
She taught English at Columbia for more than 30 years, with a focus on feminist study. She co-founded and edited the Gender and Culture Series of Columbia University Press. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship twice, in 1966 and 1970, as well as a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1976.