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She has been recognized as one of the 25 most influential women in San Diego’s history by San Diego’s 10 News viewers. In 2016 Makeda was awarded the KPBS San Diego Local Hero Award. In 2017 she received the Jan Merrit Leadership Award by San Diego Unified School District TRACE Program, and in 2018 Women of the Year Award by CA State 78th ...
Helen S. Hawkins (April 3, 1930 – 1989) [1] is best known as a feminist and a producer and host for KPBS. [2] [3] [4]Hawkins co-founded and was the first president of the San Diego chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW).
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Embery was inducted into the San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame in 2007. [8] Outstanding Celebrity Philanthropist – Rotary International, San Diego Chapter [9] Distinguished Alumna Award – Eastern Illinois University 1998 [10] Cool Women – Girl Scouts of San Diego 2012 [11] Women Who Mean Business Community Service Award – 2015 [12]
The Women's Museum of California (WMC) is a nonprofit museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, dedicated to women's history.It was founded in 1983. [1] It was first organized under the names the Women's History Reclamation Project and then the Women's History Museum and Educational Center.
LaSpina was born in a fishing village Riposto in Sicily.As a young child she contracted polio, which left her without the use of her legs.Throughout her childhood she was the subject of constant pity, friends and neighbors would call her "such a pretty girl" with the implication that it was a shame that such an attractive child was disabled. [1]
The La Jolla Woman's Club is a women's club in a historic building in La Jolla, a neighborhood of San Diego, California.Designed and built by Irving Gill with assistance from his nephew Louis John Gill in 1914-1915, it is an important example of Gill's modern architectural style, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Lambda Theta Alpha Foundation, Inc. was founded in 2015, based on the desires and needs identified by the National Board and Founding Mothers of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. They identified the need to create a foundation where members and the community could contribute and benefit from its support.