GIRAFFE'S WOMEN OF THE MONTH

Dr. Esther Mahlangu, Cultural Ambassado of the Ndebele nation

Mahlangu

Alice Eastwood, courageous American botanist

Eastwood (February, 2024)

Anonymous, or as Virginia Woolf put it "Anonymous Was A Woman".

Woolf (January, 2024)

Yumi Ando M.D., outstanding primary care physician

Ando (December, 2023)

Child. Not Israeli child. Not Palestinian child. Any child and every child. Because once trapped in the teeth of war, that little one will never be a child again. (November. 2023)

Coco Gauff, 19-year-old U. S. tennis champion who overcame a first set loss to win the U.S. Open tournament.

Gauff (October, 2023)

Queen Latifah, actor, entrepreneur, and inimitable Mama Morton. (September, 2023)

Latifah

Maritza Segura, proud naturalized American who upholds the highest standards of this country (August, 2023)

Barbara Kingsolver, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, most recently of "Demon Copperhead"

kingsolver (July, 2023)

E. Jean Carroll, who had the courage to testify in open court about indignities imposed on women

carroll (June, 2023)

Judy Blume. author of 20 books for teenage girls

blume (May, 2023)

Nicola Fox, Science Chief at NASA and only the 2nd woman in that agency's history to hold that position

Fox (April, 2023)

Barbara Hall, TV writer, producer, and director

Hall (March, 2023)

Nemat Shafik, first woman to be named President of Columbia University

Shafik (February, 2023)

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, co-founder of Ms. Magazine and founder of the first shelter for battered women in New York City.

Hughes (January, 2023)

Anagela Alvarez, at age 95 Best New Artist at Latin Grammy Awards

Alvarez (December, 2022)

Babykins, an artificial intelligence creature, born from a marriage of my imagination with an algorithm that turns text into image. In some sense, she does not exist, and yet here she is. (November,2022)

Corrina Gould, Co-Director for The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, a women-led organization within the urban setting of her ancestral territory of the Bay Area that works to return Indigenous land to Indigenous people.

Gould (October, 2022)

Nadia Murad, Nobel Peace Prize 2018, for her work on ending sexual violance as a weapon of war.

Murad (September, 2022)

Ethyl Smyth, a "feminist composer of phenomenal talents"

Smyth (August, 2022)

Angeli Gomez, the Uvalde mother who defied the police and ran into the school to save the lives of her own and several other children.

Gomez (July, 2022)

Naomi Osaka, who resigned from a Grand Slam rather than play when she was mentally uncomfortable and became a mental health advocate.

osaka (June, 2022)

Tracey Meares, denied a Valedictorian award in High School, now a distinguished legal scholar and Professor at Yale Law School

Meares (May, 2022)

Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, first Black woman in America to earn an M.D.

Crumpler, (April, 2022)

Mae Jemison, first female African-American astronaut at NASA

jemison (March, 2022)

bell hooks, trailblazing black feminist, poet, scholar and social critic

hooks (January, 2022)

Diana Budisalvjevic, who rescued thousands of children from the Nazi's

budisavljevic (December, 2021)

Ingrid Daubechies, Mathematician and Pioneer in Signal Processing

Daubechies (November, 2021)

Frances Perkins, first woman in U. S. history to hold a cabinet post

Perkins (October, 2021)

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Astrophysicist

Burnell (September, 2021)

Wally Funk, at age 82 an astronaut on Blue Origin

Funk (August,2021)

Mary Wollstonecraft, Founding Mother of Feminism

Wollstonecraft (July, 2021)

Women of the White Rose, courageous anti-nazi resistance fighters

Scholl (June, 2021)

Mary Jackson, one of NASA's "Human Computers" and their first black female engineer.

Jackson (May, 2021)

Dr. Antonia Novello, First Female and First Hispanic Surgeon General of the U.S.

Novello (April, 2021)

Helen Golden, Mixed Media Tradigital Artist

Golden (March, 2021)

Shonda Rhimes, Writer and Producer of "Bridgerton", "Scandal", and "Grey's Anatomy"

Rhimes (February, 2021)

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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Last updated February 1, 2024 - 30 years of monthly Web publication

Corinne Whitaker - Artist, Editor, Author, Poet, Sculptor, Publisher, Composer, Betaphysician, Chief of the Newanderthal Tribe

Best of Foster City 2016

Best of Palo Alto 2013

Golden Web Award, 2001 and 2000

Artist of the Month, Artisan Bazaar, 2000

Best in Cyberart Award, 1999

winner of BATech's "Catch of the Day"

winner of Fractal Design's "Artist of the Month"and "Image of the Day"

Featured Master Artist, Shadowart Galleries, 1997 and 1998

Guest Artist of the Month, Hampton Click Salon Online

Exhibit below from Virtual Gallery online