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    1. Lashley stands outdoors with a man. She is holding a clip board.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Katrina D. Lashley

      • Date: November 11, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Katrina D. Lashley has been the program coordinator of Urban Waterways at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum since 2012. The research and educational initiative aims to create a better understanding of the relationships between urban communities and their waterways.Lashley earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature and Italian from Rutgers University and a

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    3. Color photo of woman giving presentation with image of suffragette projected in background.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Lisa Kathleen Graddy

      • Date: April 19, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Deputy Chair of political history at the National Museum of American History, Lisa Kathleen Graddy, chooses artifacts to represent the American political landscape, and has curated popular exhibits on the first ladies and the women's suffrage movement. #Groundbreaker

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      SIA Acc. 19-141, Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, Project Files, 2010-2014

      • Date: 2010 2010-2014
      • Creator: Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    7. Portrait of Jones. She is wearing a formal white jacket with black accents on the collar, buttons, and front pockets. She is wearing large, thin, round glasses and a gold necklace. Jones is a Black woman.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Carolyn E. Jones

      • Date: February 2, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Carolyn E. Jones was the director of the Smithsonian’s Office of Human Resources between 1996 until her retirement in 2003. She initially joined the Institution in 1983 as a financial analyst and at various periods worked as the director of parking and as the chief financial officer for the Smithsonian’s mail order distribution division. Jones served as the chair of the

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    9. Challenging Science as Usual: Women's Participation in American Natural History Museum Work, 1870-1950

      Challenging Science as Usual: Women's Participation in American Natural History Museum Work, 1870-1950

      • Date: Summer 2009
      • Creator: Madsen-Brooks, Leslie
      • Creator: Madsen-Brooks, Leslie

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    11. Melanie McField stands at a podium.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Melanie McField

      • Date: March 18, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Melanie McField is the founding director of the Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative, a collaborative, international conservation program of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, focused on improving the health of the Mesoamerian Reef, since 2006. She leads a team that aims to create reports that measure the health of the region. #Groundbreaker

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      Researching the Smithsonian's History | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      • Effie Kapsalis pictured with Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough.

        Wonderful Women Wednesday: Effie Kapsalis

        • Date: December 20, 2022
        • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
        • Description: Digital strategist Effie Kapsalis was dedicated to building bridges between Smithsonian collections and audiences. In a Smithsonian career spanning nearly twenty years, Effie mobilized her colleagues to share more diverse stories, break down barriers to access, and fight for gender and racial equity in the cultural heritage sphere. Sadly, we lost Effie on December 11, 2022.

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      • SI History Chronology

        Smithsonian Women's Committee Established

        • Date: May 1966

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      • Close-up, low-res photo of Foresta.

        Wonderful Women Wednesday: Merry A. Foresta

        • Date: June 16, 2021
        • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
        • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      • Mary S. M. Gibson, January 1954, Frank J. Gilloon Agency, Record Unit 267: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Records, 1881, 1895-1976, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

        Women in Humanities

        • Date: March 3, 2015
        • Creator: Mitch Toda
        • Description: To kick off Women's History month, a look at some of the women in humanities represented in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.

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      • One woman and two men view a wall in an exhibit at a museum. The wall appears to be made of stone.

        Wonderful Women Wednesday: Margaret Simmons Vining

        • Date: August 3, 2022
        • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
        • Description: Margaret Simmons Vining was a museum specialist and later curator of armed forces history at the National Museum of American History from 1983 until her death in 2018.In addition to curating major exhibitions and building the division’s collections, she founded and supervised the Smithsonian Archive of Women’s Military History. Together with her longtime collaborator and life

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