March 20, 2018 in Modern Worthies Georgia Gilmore The Cook Who Secretly Fed the Civil Rights Movement She organized the Club From Nowhere - a collection of chefs who helped the effort in anonymity, to avoid reprisals in their personal and professional lives.
February 12, 2018 in Modern Worthies Kim “Geguri” Se-Yeon The First Female Pro Overwatch Player The first woman in the Overwatch e-sports league had to go through hell to prove herself.
January 29, 2018 in Modern Worthies Maria Rasputin Daughter of the Mad Monk Man, this woman had a *life*. Celebrity, fugitive, circus performer, shipworker, and daughter of Rasputin...!
November 20, 2017 in Modern Worthies Ann Gregory First African-American Female Golfer to Compete Nationally “It was better for me to remember that the flaw was in the racist, not in myself.”
October 5, 2017 in Modern Worthies Stephanie Steninger Kickboxing Instructor who Fought Off Kidnapper “He invaded *my* space,” she said. “I have a right to be on that trail.”
July 5, 2017 in Modern Worthies Simone Veil The Holocaust Survivor Who Became a French Minister Veil, who died last week, was a fierce lawyer, a Holocaust survivor, and the first woman elected as president of the European Parliament.
May 8, 2017 in Modern Worthies Chandro Tomar aka ‘Shooter Dadi’ The World's Oldest Female Sharpshooter "She once defeated a deputy superintendent of police and he refused to come for the presentation ceremony saying he’d been slighted by an old woman,"
April 21, 2017 in Modern Worthies Grace Humiston America's First Female Chief Federal Prosecutor America’s first female chief federal prosecutor not only put herself in harm’s way to end abusive labor practices, she later became a PI and solved murders.
February 8, 2017 in Modern Worthies Aisha Bakari Gombi "Queen Hunter" of Boko Haram Once she hunted antelope. Now she hunts Boko Haram.
December 23, 2016 in Modern Worthies Freddie Oversteegen Nazi-Seducing Teen Assassin (Turned Nonagenarian) When she was a teen, this now-90-year-old woman would seduce and kill Nazis. Now she plays a mean game of Scrabble.