lisah, the more I think about your question, the less I feel qualified to answer. But here are a few thoughts.
I suspect most students will focus on gender equality. So someone like Rosa Parks or Harriet Tubman might be a slightly unexpected choice.
Maybe Pat Schroeder. I don't hear about her much today, but she was quite a voice in the House.
Frances Wright and Sojourner Truth, public speakers (pro-free love and anti-slavery, respectively) in an era when women simply didn't engage in public speaking.
How about Swanee Hunt? [link] She's current.
Congrats on the FAQ Update!
Yay for Nilly baby! So incredibly cute.
Nilly! Look at that, you made a tiny person. So cute! He has a mouth made for smiling.
Thank you all. We should be lucky to have a baby half a cute as the Nillster.
More recent history (I KNOW): Geraldine Ferraro?
Yeah, I'd stay away from that one. She had a lot of fail the past couple of years.
Nilly, what an awesome human you made! He looks so curious and happy (no surprise).
Oh, fuck. I just realised that the timesheet entries I'd been making hadn't been being saved. So my time off hasn't been recorded for the past couple months.
Yeah, I'd stay away from that one. She had a lot of fail the past couple of years.
Sure, but she had a Moment.
Interesting. IO9 has a post about asexuality. What keeps getting me is that asexuals have a lot more sex than I'd think.