Day 17 of Women’s Herstory month- a famous naturalist for St. Patrick’s Day ☘️: Margaret “Mardy” Murie (1902 - 2003) Mardy Murie worked hand-in-hand with her husband Olaus Murie to accomplish important wilderness victories like the establishment and expansion of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Mardy Murie witnessed first-hand the signing of the [...]

Day 16 Women’s Herstory month, first in her chosen profession: Minnie M. (Geddings) Cox (1869–1933) was an American teacher who was the first African-American woman to serve as a postmaster in the United States. Cox became the center of a national controversy in the early 1900s when local white citizens attempted to force [...]

Day 15 Women’s Herstory month- a film star and humanitarian: Audrey Hepburn was both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. Later in [...]

Day 14 of Women’s Herstory month, a brave survivor: Malala Yousafzai was born in Pakistan on July 12, 1997. Yousafzai’s father was a teacher and ran an all-girls school in her village, however when the Taliban took over her town they enforced a ban on all girls going to school. In 2012, at [...]

Day 13 Women’s Herstory month, a female pharaoh: Hatshepsut, also spelled Hatchepsut, female king of Egypt (reigned in her own right c. 1473–58 BCE) who attained unprecedented power for a woman, adopting the full titles and regalia of a pharaoh. During her rule, the Egyptian economy flourished; she expanded trading relations and dispatched [...]

Day 12 of Women’s Herstory an amazing scientist. Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 60-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park [...]

Mental Health Courts In 2019 the Texas Legislature passed SB 562, which added section 125.005 to the Texas Government Code. This section requires counties with a population of over 200k to establish a mental health court program and to seek funds to pay the costs of the program. Cameron County established the first [...]

Day 11 of Women’s Herstory month an important activist: Dolores Huerta launched the slogan “Sí, se puede” (“Yes, we can”) amid farmworker protests in Arizona in 1972 as a demonstration of her belief in the individual and collective power of workers. For female workers in particular, her role was transformative. At a time [...]

For day 10 of Women’s Herstory month- a favorite author: Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is a Chicana writer. She is best known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street (1983), and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms [...]

Day 9 of Women’s Herstory month: Co-founder of the ACLU Jane Addams (born September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker,sociologist, public administrator and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for [...]