The Honorable Matilda Raffa Cuomo (1931- )

Advocate, Innovator, Founder, Leader, First Lady of NY State (1983-95): children’s rights, health, education

and welfare; UN World Summit for Children and UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.2017 Inductees

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Dr. Temple Grandin (1947- ) Professor, Researcher, Inventor, Author, Advocate: animal behavior and handling, environmental enrichment, animal safety, opening windows on autism and how different minds

work – “The World Needs All Kinds of Minds.”

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)Playwright, Civil Rights Activist, Essayist, Observer,

Social Critic: A Raisin in the Sun, Les Blancs, first African American woman playwright to have a show produced on

Broadway, “to be young, gifted, and black!”

Victoria Jackson (1955- )Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Paradigm-Shifter, Author, Collaborator: cosmetics, autoimmune medical research,

founder of Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation, Victoria Jackson Cosmetics.

Sherry Lansing (1944- )Filmmaker, CEO, Philanthropist, Educator, Institution

Builder: 20th Century Fox (first woman to head a major film studio), Paramount Pictures (Chair and CEO),

Forrest Gump, Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal, Titanic, Sherry Lansing Foundation.

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)Journalist, Playwright, Congresswoman, Ambassador,

Philanthropist: WWII journalist, Vanity Fair editor, authored The Women, first congresswoman in Connecticut,

Clare Boothe Luce Program provides private support for women in STEM, Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1983.

Aimée Mullins (1976- )Athlete, Actor, Model, Designer, Intelligence Analyst:

youngest person to hold top secret security at Pentagon, first double amputee in the NCAA, conceived of and first to wear prostheses that became international standard, world record

holder, world-renowned model, actor “Stranger Things.”

Carol A. Mutter (1945- )Marine, Lt. General, Space Commander, Mentor,

Consultant: First woman Marine three-star general, first woman qualified as Command Center Crew Commander /

Space Commander at U.S. Space Command, and first woman of general/flag rank to lead a major deployable tactical command

(3rd Force Service Support Group in Okinawa, Japan).

Dr. Janet D. Rowley (1925-2013) Doctor, Professor, Medical Scientist, Geneticist,

Discoverer: bench to bedside philosophy, determined cancer is a genetic disease, personalized cancer care and targeted

therapy, 14 honorary degrees, 2009 recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Genetics Prize of the Peter and

Patricia Gruber Foundation.

Alice Waters (1944- ) Chef, Restaurateur, Author, Activist, Educator, Creator:

founder and owner of Chez Panisse, organic local and sustainable agriculture, gardener, Edible Schoolyard Project, Slow Food International, first woman recipient of Best Chef

in America from James Beard Foundation, and National Humanities Medal in 2015.

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